Between Civil War and Civil Rights -1: How the South (or White Supremacy?) Won the War (1865 - 1877)
From: Alan Lipke
Series: Between Civil War and Civil Rights
Length: 58:19
For many years, history told only the perspectives of white segregationists, for whom white supremacy was the cultural norm and black freedom a threat. How the South Won the War uses the actual words and voices of witnesses and "freedmen"--and women--to present the experiences of black Americans during this time, as African American communities across the South struggled to make real the promise of freedom, equality and political suffrage. It puts black-, and white supremacist- perspectives in context, exploring the cultural and psychological values that allowed the terrorists and society at large then--and some today--to rationalize domestic terrorism.
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For many years, history told only the perspectives of white segregationists, for whom white supremacy was the cultural norm and black freedom a threat. How the South Won the War uses the actual words and voices of witnesses and "freedmen"--and women--to present the experiences of black Americans during this time, as African American communities across the South struggled to make real the promise of freedom, equality and political suffrage. It puts black-, and white supremacist- perspectives in context, exploring the cultural and psychological values that allowed the terrorists and society at large then--and some today--to rationalize domestic terrorism.
Broadcast History
distributed several times 2000 - 2004 by PRI
Timing and Cues
28:41-29:04 music bed for station i.d. I.C: 0028:47 Outcue: [sung]: I may be gone, in some lonesome graveyard. How long?
Intro and Outro
INTRO:FOR 2nd HALF HOUR: President Lincoln announced Emancipation of slaves in the South in 1863; it took another 7 years for the 14th and 15th Amendments to grant the “Freedmen” full voting citizenship rights. And that didn’t settle the issue. How the South—or at least, White Supremacy—Won the War, continues.
OUTRO:Tune in [day, time] to this station for the next chapter of Between Civil War and Civil Rights:
the 2nd half of How the South--or at least, White Supremacy the Won the War: Fear's Triumph.
--OR--
the story of the only coup d'etat in U. S. history, Democracy's Denial: Revolutions in Wilmington.
Musical Works
| Title | Artist | Album | Label | Year | Length |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Moses | John Davis | Southern Journey vol 12: Georgia Sea Islands. | Rounder | 00:00 | |
| The Buzzard Lope | Bessie Jones | Southern Journey vol 13: Earliest Times. | Rounder | 00:00 | |
| Chicken Ain't Nothin' But a Bird | Furry(?) Lewis | Beale Street Saturday Night. | Memphis Development Foundation | 00:00 | |
| Run Nigger Run | Skillet Lickers | Old Time Fiddle Tunes & Songs from North Georgia Vol.2. | County | 1926 | 00:00 |
| Hop Along Let's Get Her | Henry Morrison, John Davis | Southern Journey vol 13: Earliest Times. | Rounder | 00:00 | |
| Rock Daniel | Rev. C. H. Davis | Deep River of Song: Mississippi Saints and Sinners. | Rounder | 00:00 | |
| If I Had My Way, I'd Tear the Building Down | Deacon Tom Jones, Rev. C.H. Savage | Deep River of Song: Mississippi Saints and Sinners. | Rounder | 00:00 | |
| Oh Death; & Before This Time Another Year | Bessie Jones & Group | Southern Journey vol 12: Georgia Sea Islands. | Rounder | 00:00 | |
| Grant Grant Grant; & If the Johnies Get Into Power Again | Oscar Brand | Presidential Campaign Songs 1789-1996. | Smithsonian Folkways | 00:00 | |
| Soon One Morning | Mississippi Fred MacDowell | Southern Journey Vol 3: 61 Highway Mississippi. | Rounder | 00:00 | |
| Old Devil's Dream | Sid Hemphill, Lucius Smith | Southern Journey Vol 3: 61 Highway Mississippi. | Rounder | 00:00 | |
| Cripple Creek | Jimmie Strothers | Deep River of Song: Black Appalachia. | Rounder | 00:00 | |
| Eli You Can't Stand | Willis Proctor | Southern Journey vol 12: Georgia Sea Islands. | Rounder | 00:00 |
Additional Credits
Sound-design and engineering by Jim Beckwith of Common Touch Music
Script edited by Jude Thilman;
Many thanks for the music to Anna Chairetakis, Matthew Barton and the Alan Lomax Archives, and Rounder Records; County Records; Oscar Brand and Smithsonian Folkways, and the Memphis Development Foundation.
Original music by Bobby O’Donovan, Sarasota Slim, Billy Carr and Andy Irvine;
Readings by Debra Barrone, Jack Belt, Harold Briscoe, Joe Catanzariti, Michael DuMouchel, Lanny Futerre, Louis Iacavello, Julius James, Caroline Jett, James Martin Kelly, Daphne McDowell, Brenda McGriff, Steven McGruder, LeRoy Mitchell, J. Ricc Rollins, Guido Roncallo, Jennifer Shumaker, Tom Stix, James Tokeley, and Jim Wicker
Oral History Recordings from Duke University’s Behind the Veil Collection, The Southern Regional Council’s Will the Circle Be Unbroken Archives, Professor Charles Hardy; and
the Library of Congress.
Production is made possible by grants from the Rockefeller Foundation, the Florida Humanities Council, the Fund for Investigative Journalism and support from the Nathan B. Stubblefield Foundation/WMNF community radio of Tampa Bay, and others too numerous to name.
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