Note: This blog is reprinted with permission from and compiled by Abdul Akalimat, PhD
Take a minute and watch a movie from yesterday
The Negro and the South
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. – “The History of the Negro People”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o15sbC2Rwxg
The Dutchman
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VRoOAmtHsQ
I Passed for White
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tiXJwoimOf0
Nothing But A Man
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbNKQwoDrHA
Paris Blues
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWQ5Oa33U9s
Black Girl
https://filmroot.com/2017/12/31/black-girl-senegal/
Putney Swope
https://tubitv.com/movies/475775/putney-swope
The Spook Who Sat By The Door
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_BynXfREPG8
Sounder
https://tubitv.com/movies/584610/sounder
The Murder of Fred Hampton
https://vimeo.com/434141029
The Battle of Algiers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iA25SO3dJrQ
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Previously Published on Historian Speaks
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