The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow
Season 1 • Episode 3: Don't Shout Too Soon (1917-1940) • Watch with subtitles
Episode 3: Don't Shout Too Soon (1917-1940)
October 15, 2002 • 56 min
Mob violence, lynchings, and massacres of blacks increase between World Wars I and II, and three members of the fledgling NAACP lead campaigns to confront these threats. W.E.B. Du Bois called for veterans of World War I to "return fighting." Walter White went among the lynchers to discover the truth behind the rapes and insurrections allegedly committed by blacks, and Charles Hamilton Houston designed and successfully applied a legal strategy that challenged Jim Crow and resulted in the famous "Brown vs. Board of Education" decision, which desegregated public schools in 1954.
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