Films for the Humanities and Sciences - Mississippi and the Black Vote-1962

Mississippi and the Black Vote—1962

One was a college student, another was a schoolteacher, and a third was a fellow of the National Science Foundation, yet all three were ruled illiterate by the local circuit clerk and therefore ineligible to vote. Filmed in 1962, this program reveals the double standards and the dangers faced by African-Americans registering to vote in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. Interviews with local officials, segregationists, lawyers, clergy, and citizens on both sides of the color line expose what amounted to nothing less than a tacit conspiracy to deprive certain people of their constitutional right to stand up and be counted. Produced by CBS News. (57 minutes, b&w)

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Item#: BVL10810
Copyright date: ©1962
DVD ISBN 978-0-7365-5071-0

Part of the Series : The Civil Rights Movement: Primary Sources


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