Oral Histories From Segregated Greenwood, MS in the 1960s

Three African-Americans from the Southern city recall life in segregation before the civil rights movement in the mid-1960s. Many blacks who attempted to vote were fired from their jobs by white employers. Some had their homes dynamited by the Ku Klux Klan. This video was part of the educational pre-show for the play, "Jubilee in the Rear View Mirror," about the voting rights struggle that opened in 2012 (www.jubileeplay.com) To emphasize the racial divide of the time, the theater was roped off into separate white and colored sections. Patrons were issued tickets at random (not by race) and sat in the appropriate W and C areas. Before the civil rights movement, many would-be black voters had to answer intelligence tests that were not administered to white voters. A common question was: How many bubbles in a bar of soap?

Видео Oral Histories From Segregated Greenwood, MS in the 1960s канала Colin Mathews