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The Negro and the South (1965-10-19)
About this film
The meaning of that enigmatic term "the Southern way of Life" to the South's 43 million whites and 11 million Negroes is the subject of this program. Interviews with whites and Negroes present the view from both sides of the fence. Host Ossie Davis comments on the life of the Negro in the South, past and present. Interviewed on camera are several white citizens in Mississippi including Mayor William Elliot of Oxford, Sheriff Boyce Bratton of Lafayette County, and Circuit Judge Walter O'Barr. Among the Negroes interviewed are a mechanic, a teacher, and a minister, the Rev. W. H. Redmond. The cameras also visit white and Negro classrooms where children are taught Southern history from the same textbooks in different schools. The interviews themselves proceed with little commentary on the part of the narrator: the emotions, thoughts, fears, hopes, frustrations - and rationalizations, of those interviewed speak for themselves. (Description adapted from documents in the NET Microfiche)
Directors & creators
National Educational Television and Radio Center
Subjects
public broadcasting, AAPB, Ossie Davis, William Faulkner, Medgar Evers, William Elliot, Boyce Bratton, Walter O'Barr, W. H. Redmond, Mary Roland, Leroy Percy, Jefferson Davis, Blanche K. Bruce, John Mercer Langston, B. S. Pinchback, National Educational Television, Oxford, Mississippi, Civil War, Reconstruction era, Southern way of life, segregation, African American history, race relations
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