What happened after the civil rights movement? Struggle and change
This DVD comes from the second season of the acclaimed PBS series Eyes On The Prize. This was from the less well known second season and featured the last two episodes “Keyes to the Kingdom (1974-80)” and “Back to the Movement (1979-mid-80s).” This covers the post-civil rights movement. It poses the questions of after the passing of Martin Luther King, and the end of the major marches and major civil rights legislation what came of racism and black rights in America? The answer was a very mixed bag.<br /><br />The DVD has six main stories. The first was the attempt to desegregate the schools in Boston in the 1970s, the second was the election of black mayors, and the third was affirmative action. The first and last stories are directly related because it showed the refusal by white America to follow through with the laws and spirit of the civil rights laws. In Boston for example, the city refused to follow the 1954 Brown vs Board of Education Supreme Court decision that schools had to be integrated. That forced black parents to sue the school district and get a court order to mix the children. This caused huge resentment amongst the white community that exploded into attacks upon buses carrying black children and later a riot outside a high school after a black and white student got into a fight. Listening to the interviews with whites you see that they believed that they were the victims during this entire process. Telling them they had to go to school with blacks was considered not only an insult, but a direct threat to their way of life and they were going to fight it. Similarly when affirmative action was started and universities had to open their doors to more minorities that program faced the same types of criticism and attacks. Again, whites took these policies as an affront and they claimed victimhood even though they had all the power. This exposed America for not standing up to its rhetoric and ideals of a free and democratic society.<br /><br />These conflicts are contrasted to the political victories of the first black mayors in major American cities such as Maynard Jackson in Atlanta and Harold Washington in Chicago. That showed that some politics was opening via electoral politics. More importantly with blacks in power they could start redistributing the state’s resources which had been held exclusively by whites. That raised opposition as well. One Atlanta businessman for example called Mayor Jackson a racist for trying to give contracts to black businesses. Again, changes in a system where whites got everything was considered the problem, not the white power structure. The rhetoric of whites to these changes was the same however. There was fear of blacks taking power and bringing about change.<br /><br />It’s really hard to understand these times even though they were just a few years ago. That’s why documentaries like this are so important. Seeing what happened really brings home what America was going through during this important period and what barriers and struggles still exist to America fulfilling its promise.
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