- Title: V-6000
- Summary: THE NEGRO & THE SOUTH: BLACK LIFESTYLE IN THE AMERICAN SOUTH WITH INTERVIEWS OF BOTH WHITE & BLACK CITIZENS OF TOWN OF OXFORD, MISSISSIPPI IN LAFAYETTE COUNTY.
- Description:00:00:22 - MONTAGE SOUTHERN PLANTATION ESTATES: NEO-GRECIAN MANSIONS, HIGH PILLARS COLUMNS AT ENTRANCES 00:00:32 - SOUTHERN BELLES DRESSED IN ANTEBELLUM ERA DRESSES CARRYING UMBRELLA WALKING THROUGH GROUNDS OF ESTATE IN RE-CREATION OF ANTEBELLUM SOUTHERN PLANTATION ERA. 00:00:36 - SOUTHERN BELLES DANCING WITH ELEGANT MEN 00:00:41 - POV WATCHING MEN DUEL WITH SWORDS ON LAWN 00:00:43 - FAMILY PORTRAIT ON WALL. BUTLER GOES TO SILVER TEA SERVICE UNDER PORTRAIT 00:00:47 - BLACK MALE SERVANT WAITING ON MASTER 00:00:50 - BLACK FEMALE SERVANT HELPING BELLE INTO DRESS IN FRONT OF HUGE MIRROR 00:00:55 - MONTAGE GROUPS WAVING: SOUTHERN FAMILY WITH NANNY HOLDING BABY WAVING FROM BALCONY, NANNY & GIRLS WAVING, BLACK PLANTATION FAMILY IN HORSE-PULLED CART WAVING, PLANTATION OWNER WAVING HAT (HF-YTV) 00:01:14 - OSSIE DAVIS INTRODUCES PROGRAM. EXPLAINS "THE SOUTHERN WAY OF LIFE", CIRCA EARLY 1960s. QUOTES MEDGAR EVERS. 00:02:48 - OXFORD, MISSISSIPPI. MONUMENT IN TOWN SQUARE 00:02:58 - CU INSCRIPTION ON MONUMENT DEDICATED TO CONFEDERATE DEAD. 1861-1865. 00:03:02 - OXFORD, 1965 00:03:09 - EXTERIOR OF REBEL COSMETOLOGY COLLEGE. CONFEDERATE FLAG (STARS AND BARS) PAINTED ON WALL 00:03:10 - REBEL DRIVE-IN MOVIE SIGN 00:03:16 - PARK'S BARBER SHOP. MEN INSIDE ON BARBER STOOLS & CHAIRS GETTING HAIR CUTS. 00:03:21 - MONTAGE OXFORD CITIZENS: SENIOR CITIZENS, FEMALE TEENAGERS, GIRLS WINDOW SHOPPING 00:03:29 - RICHARD ELLIOTT TALKS ABOUT LIFE IN OXFORD. WHITE MAN'S OUTLOOK 00:03:43 - MONTAGE OXFORD CITIZENS: BLACK & WHITES. SENIOR CITIZENS TO YOUNG PEOPLE. SHOPPING IN DOWNTOWN SECTION OF TOWN. BLACK TEENAGE FEMALE STUDENTS 00:04:20 - ELLIOT TALKS ABOUT RACIAL HARMONY IN OXFORD. 00:04:45 - BLACK YARD WORKERS DIGGING, BREAKING UP ROCKS, SHOVELING DIRT INTO WHEELBARROW 00:04:58 - BLACK FAMILIES' HOMES IN THE "NEGRO QUARTER" 00:04:59 - POV WALKING INSIDE HOME PAST HOUSEWIFE & CHILDREN IN LIVING ROOM, INTO KITCHEN 00:05:08 - YOUNG BLACK BOY OUTSIDE ON PORCH NEXT TO BATHROOM WITH NO DOOR 00:05:10 - MOTHER WITH CHILD ON LAP SITTING IN CHAIR ON PORCH 00:05:13 - WOMAN SWEEPING PORCH, LEGS & BROOM SEEN 00:05:18 - WOMAN ON HANDS & KNEES SCRUBBING OUTDOORS. SCRUB BRUSH & BUCKET. SLUMS 00:05:20 - WHITE MAN GETTING SHOE SHINE & HAIR CUT AT BARBER SHOP 00:05:25 - EXTERIOR MARY BUIE MUSEUM 00:05:30 - PORTRAIT OF OXFORD CITIZEN WILLIAM FAULKNER 00:05:35 - MARY ROLAND, CUSTODIAN OF MUSEUM, TALKS ABOUT MISSY THE BLACK NANNY THAT NURSED HER CHILDREN. CONFEDERATE FLAG IN BKGD. "WE GOT SOME MIGHTY GOOD DARKIES HERE" 00:06:59 - STILLS 00:07:13 - BLACK PLANTATION WORKERS HARVESTING COTTON. DRAGGING SACKS OF COTTON. USING HOOK TO HEFT BALES INTO BACK OF TRUCK, EMPTYING COTTON INTO TRUCK. AGRICULTURAL WORKERS 00:08:46 - STILLS OF CIVIL WAR 00:09:52 - LEROY PERCY, PLANTATION OWNER, TALKS ABOUT LIFE POST CIVIL WAR 00:10:16 - STILLS 00:11:23 - ELIZABETH BOUNDS, TEACHER TALKS ABOUT RECONSTRUCTION IN THE SOUTH 00:11:43 - MONTAGE BLACK MEN FROM OXFORD. HANGING AROUND IN OXFORD, JOBLESS. 00:12:03 - CU BLACK MAN SMOKING CIGAR 00:12:06 - CU TOOTHLESS GUM-SUCKING WHITE SENIOR CITIZEN OLD MAN DRINKING FROM WATER FOUNTAIN 00:12:09 - SENIOR CITIZENS. RETIRED OLD WHITE MEN PLAYING CHESS IN THE PARK 00:12:30 - STILLS 00:12:41 - FOOTAGE FROM "BIRTH OF A NATION" 00:13:24 - MODERN KKK "MARCH". KU KLUX KLANERS IN CARS WITH CONFEDERATE FLAGS HANGING ON THEM, CIRCA 1960s 00:13:34 - KKK MARCH: BURNING CROSS, CONCEALING IDENTITIES UNDER ROBES & HOODS. 00:13:43 - GRAND WIZARD GIVES SPEECH TO KU KLUX KLAN MEMBERS. PANS KKK MEMBERS 00:14:51 - REVEREND W.N. REDMOND, RECALLS INCIDENT WHERE MAN & HIS SON ARE PUNISHED FOR KILLING WHITE MAN'S DOG. "VIGILANTE SYSTEM OF NEGRO CONTROL" 00:15:45 - CU SIGN READS: "FIGHT FOR FREEDOM, SEEK THE TRUTH. WE HAVE NO CHOICE WE ARE RIGHT" 00:15:48 - PANS DOWN TO SHERIFF BOYCE BRATTON SPEAKS ABOUT "BLACK FREEDOM" 00:16:12 - ZOOMS IN ON MUNICIPAL BUILDING SIGN READING "WHITE ONLY LADIES REST ROOM". SEGREGATION 00:16:24 - MONTAGE JIM CROW SIGNS: COLORED, WHITE ONLY MENS REST ROOM 00:16:38 - WHITE ONLY BARBER SHOP. BARBER SHAVING CUSTOMER 00:16:42 - WALTER M. O'BARR, JUDGE, SPEAKING ON HOW LAW WORKS DIFFERENTLY FOR BLACK & WHITE CITIZENS 00:17:42 - CLASSROOM IN MISSISSIPPI, CIRCA 1960s. TEACHER TEACHING HISTORY. CONFEDERATE FLAG ON BLACKBOARD 00:18:00 - SPLIT SCREEN OF SEGREGATED CLASSROOMS: ONE WHITE, ONE BLACK 00:18:04 - MONTAGE CLASSROOMS: CHILDREN LEARNING HISTORY CIRCA 1960s WITH SAME TEXTBOOKS, BUT SEPARATELY 00:18:43 - CROSS ON WALL. RELIGIOUS ICON. JESUS. 00:18:46 - WHITE SOUTHERN CHURCH SERVICE, SINGING HYMNS, PRAYING. CU MEMBERS OF THE CONGREGATION 00:19:39 - WHITE SOUTHERN RACIST ESPOUSING BIGOTRY 00:20:01 - EXTERIOR BLACK CHURCH 00:20:04 - BLACK SERVICE. REVEREND GIVING SERMON, SINGING 00:20:47 - SIGN NAILED TO TREE READS: "PRIVATE CLUB, COLORED ONLY" 00:20:53 - BLACK PATRON BEING STAMPED ON THE HAND AT DOOR. PEOPLE GOING INTO JUKE JOINT 00:21:00 - BAND PLAYING IN JUKE JOINT. CUSTOMERS DANCING 00:21:28 - SHERIFF OF LAFAYETTE COUNTY, BOYCE BRATTON, SPEAKING ABOUT BLACK PEOPLE 00:22:05 - ELDERLY SENIOR CITIZEN BLACK WOMAN WRINGING HER HANDS NERVOUSLY TELLS HOW GOOD WHITE PEOPLE WERE TO HER WHEN SHE GOT SICK 00:22:13 - POV FROM TOP OF STAIRS IN HOUSE LOOKING DOWN AT KITCHEN IN POOR SHACK. PANS TO CHILDREN'S LEGS & FEET. YOUNG BOY WITH NASTY BITES ON LEGS. TATTERED COUCH & PANTS. EXTREMELY DESTITUTE FAMILY IMPOVERISHED, POVERTY STRICKEN 00:22:23 - PAN KITCHEN: STOVE, FOOD LEFT IN OPEN PANS, TOTAL DISARRAY, UNKEPT MESSY KITCHEN. WOMAN OF THE HOUSE TELLING HOW SHE COULD NOT SURVIVE WITHOUT WHITE FOLKS HELP 00:22:33 - BLACK WOMAN & CHILDREN ON PORCH. 00:22:47 - PRO-SEGREGATION JUDGE O'BARR SPEAKING ON "THE SOUTHERN WAY OF LIFE" 00:23:34 - FEMALE TEACHER SPEAKING ON THINGS ARE "BORN IN US", INSTILLED IN US "IN SPITE OF RESPECT FOR BLACK PEOPLE, THERE IS SOME PHYSICAL REVULSION FOR THEIR "DARKNESS" 00:24:01 - BLACK MECHANIC, WADE WARD, SPEAKS ON HIS EXPERIENCES. "IS NOT THE SKIN OF THE NEGRO THAT WHITE MAN DREADS, IT'S THAT THE NEGRO IS GOING TO DEMAND THE DOLLAR THE WHITE MAN DEMANDS" 00:24:39 - DELLA DAVIDSON, TEACHER, GIVES HER INTERPRETATION OF "THE SOUTHERN WAY OF LIFE" FOR THE NEGRO WOMAN. HOW SHE IS ADDRESSED. 00:25:48 - FATHER WOFFORD K. SMITH SPEAKING. "YOU CANNOT ENSLAVE, HOLD DOWN, OR DISCRIMINATE AGAINST OTHERS WITHOUT, IN TURN, HAVING THE SAME THING DONE TO YOURSELF" 00:26:32 - REVEREND HAMP DAVIDSON SPEAKING ON "THE GOOD THINGS THAT WE HOPE FOR, AS HUMAN BEINGS & AS GOD'S CHILDREN WILL FINALLY COME TO PASS" 00:26:56 - BLACK CHURCH SERMON, CONGREGATION SINGING. PANS MEMBERS. WOMEN FANNING THEMSELVES
- Collection: Historic Films
- Producer:Historic Films
- Transmission Date:01/01/1965
- Rights:On request
- Decade: 1960s
- File Name: V-6000