CBS Of Black America: The Heritage of Slavery
Duration: 00:57:00 This film is the 5th part of a seven-part documentary created by CBS news with George Foster as interviewer and narrator. It looks at the history of slavery in Charlston, one of the oldest cities in the US; and from this case general statements are made about the entire country. T...
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| Institution: | Open Society Archives at Central European University |
| Language: | English |
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CBS
1968
United States |
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10891/osa:43ef055f-48ad-4481-a718-a6aa63219349 |
| Summary: | Duration: 00:57:00
This film is the 5th part of a seven-part documentary created by CBS news with George Foster as interviewer and narrator. It looks at the history of slavery in Charlston, one of the oldest cities in the US; and from this case general statements are made about the entire country. The second case, that of a little town in Missisippi, where the heritage of slavery, besides trauma, is also consisting of unemployment, starvation, illiteration, violence, etc. Another place higly influenced by the legacies of slavery is Chicago, which one of the primary location of internal migration of African-Americans who find no home and acceptance anymore in the South. This creates the impossible situation: segregation in the South, the ghettos in the North. All in all, exploitation and suffering remain deeply entranched if there isn't racial and social equality and fairness. In the context of the development of the civil rights movement, the authors attempt to show the fudamentally uneven account of slavery from the population of the South and not only. For African-Americans it is a story of trauma and suffering, while the whites emphasize a shallow and fake story of civilizational mission. There is a stress on communication between the two races and acceptance of guily for omnipresent abuse from the part of the white - these were to be the first steps of comprehending the origins and reasons of the civil rights movement. The documentary also contains a description of the uprisings and revolutions organized by slaves against their "masters". |
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| Published: | 1968 |