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099    Streaming Video Kanopy 
245 04 The Strange Demise of Jim Crow.|h[Kanopy electronic 
       resource] 
264  1 [San Francisco, California, USA] :|bKanopy Streaming,
       |c2015. 
300    1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 58 min.) :
       |bdigital, .flv file, sound 
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500    Title from title frames. 
518    Originally produced by California Newsreel in 1998. 
520    Not all the civil rights victories of the '60s were won at
       the cost of vicious beatings and mass arrests played-out 
       in front of television cameras. The Strange Demise of Jim 
       Crow reveals for the first time on film how many Southern 
       cities were desegregated in a quieter, almost stealthy 
       fashion with behind-the-scenes negotiations, secret deals 
       and controversial news black-outs. It makes visible a 
       fascinating case-study of how urban power is really 
       wielded. Student sit-ins spread rapidly through the South 
       in 1960, including Houston. When the Houston students, led
       by Texas Southern law student Eldreway Stearns, launched 
       sit-ins and boycotts of downtown stores, a group of older 
       black business leaders (who were secretly financing the 
       students) opened quiet discussions with Houston's powerful
       Downtown Business Alliance led by an an old-time political
       "fixer," Bob Dundas. Dundas recognized the inevitable: 
       either Houston would desegregate voluntarily now or 
       involuntarily later. He convinced 70 lunch-counters to 
       integrate all at once by promising to keep the event off 
       the news. The Houston news media complied when Dundas 
       threatened to pull advertising, and few people - including
       violent white supremacists - realized the students had 
       won. Hotels were targeted next, chosen because former 
       mayor Roy Hofheinz's dream of building the Astrodome and 
       bringing a baseball team to Houston hinged on black 
       support. Would Willie Mays stay in a segregated hotel? 
       Play in a segregated stadium? The white power brokers 
       worked the downtown hotel owners while the black 
       businessmen arranged for well-heeled black couples to 
       reserve rooms on an appointed day. Again, the local press 
       were persuaded to black-out the news and there was no 
       violence. Still, restaurants and movie theaters held out. 
       This time 100 black students plotted to disrupt Houston's 
       nationally televised ticker-tape parade for astronaut 
       Gordon Cooper. Their black business supporters leaked the 
       threat to the Downtown Alliance. As the parade was about 
       to begin, the students got word that a last-minute deal to
       desegregate quietly had been brokered and they reluctantly
       canceled their protest. Houston's public accommodations 
       had been integrated, but again, the press didn't cover the
       story. The Strange Demise of Jim Crow is a multi-level 
       story of urban power and change: student demonstrators vs.
       segregationists; the white power structure's fear of 
       integration vs. their greater fear of violence, 
       embarrassing national publicity and financial losses; 
       secret deal-making vs. freedom of the press. Most of all, 
       the documentary demonstrates how threats of demonstrations
       and civic strife compelled the power elite to negotiate 
       with more moderate, "responsible" black leaders and 
       neutralize arch-segregationists. At the same time, by 
       censoring news coverage, Houston integrated peacefully but
       also undermined efforts to build a mass movement that 
       might truly threaten and destabilize white power and 
       privilege. The Strange Demise of Jim Crow completes the 
       story of the civil rights movement and is ideal for 
       political science, sociology and history courses. "A 
       remarkable, riveting and thought-provoking documentary. A 
       fascinating behind-the-scenes look at secret meetings, 
       unexpected alliances and the suppression of the news." - 
       Houston Chronicle. "The most important story that then 
       Houston newsman Dan Rather never covered...Sheds light on 
       integration and a rare news black-out." - Los Angeles 
       Times. 
538    Mode of access: World Wide Web. 
650  0 African Americans|xCivil rights movements|y20th Century
       |vHistory|zUnited States|zTexas. 
650  0 African Americans|xCivil rights movements|y20th Century
       |vHistory|zUnited States|zTexas. 
650  0 Race relations|xSegregation|vHistory|zUnited States. 
650  0 Freedom of the press|zUnited States. 
655  7 Documentary films.|2lcgft 
700 1  Berman, David |efilm director. 
710 2  Kanopy (Firm) 
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