An explosion at the Banner Mine in Alabama killed 128 men, almost all of them African American prisoners of the state who were forced to work in the mine under the convict leasing system. SLAVERY BY ANOTHER NAME is a 90-minute documentary that challenges one of Americans' most cherished assumptions: the belief that slavery in this country ended with the Emancipation Proclamation. Slavery by Another Name explores the new forms of slavery after the Civil War. Slavery by Another Name PBS, Saint Paul, MN. It didn't just injure black people. A former reporter for The Wall Street Journal, he's now the chair of the Miller Center Forum at the University of Virginia. The PBS documentary, " Slavery by Another Name," will be screened and followed by discussion led by Marc Robinson, CSUSB assistant professor of history, when the next Conversations on Race and Policing convenes virtually on Wednesday, Feb. 24. The peonage system represents one of the great failures of Reconstruction. Directed by Sam Pollard, produced by Catherine Allan and Douglas Blackmon, written by Sheila Curran Bernard, based on the 2009 Pulitzer Prize-winning book by Blackmon. After the Civil War, former slaves sought jobs, and planters sought laborers. The subsequent ratification of the Fourteenth Amendment established the citizenship of all freed peoples and with it, equal . income, is the civil rights issue of our day. Slavery By Another Name. qEW_ wN %IdB5kW;5wK-* %*]uM5(g :tik wyEosP(Uo;Vu Lc3PN &/3ARnK ]\6N2Rj2 A. Just check all flip PDFs from the author SCOH-PR. He served as documentary producer of Henry Hamptons Blackside, Inc. production of Eyes on the Prize II: America at the Racial Crosswords, and a producer of the Peabody Award-winning PBS series The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow. [Boston, MA] :PBS Distribution, 2012. warning Note: These citations are software generated and may contain errors. We can remove the first show in the list to add this one. 1. $W`Twt@Ig4 ` produced and directed by Sam Pollard ; written by Sheila Curran Bernard ; a production of TPT National Productions in association with Two Dollars & A Dream, Inc. Slavery by Another Name. Pollard is no stranger to racially-focused and enlightening subject matter. But, instead, five months later, he died under horrible conditions in a coal mine outside of Birmingham owned by U.S. Steel Corporation. "With PBS . Adjust the colors to reduce glare and give your eyes a break. <>/XObject<>/ProcSet[/PDF/Text/ImageB/ImageC/ImageI] >>/Annots[ 28 0 R 29 0 R 30 0 R] /MediaBox[ 0 0 612 792] /Contents 4 0 R/Group<>/Tabs/S/StructParents 0>> Im gratified to work with him to tell this story., My father was from Mississippi, and my mother was from Georgia, said Pollard. It helps support the operation of nearly 1,300 locally-owned and operated public television and radio stations nationwide, and is the largest single source of funding for research, technology, and program development for public radio, television and related online services. Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window), Click to share on Pinterest (Opens in new window), Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window), Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window). Not just a black history story, but an American history story. He experienced some of the some of that period of time in which you had huge numbers of black people who voted. Documentary Tells Little-Known History of Forced Labor. Clemons talked about his grandparents and parents and their lives of sharecropping. 80 years What are some of the other forms of slavery by another name? %%EOF We can remove the first video in the list to add this one. false false Insertion sort: Split the input into item 1 (which might not be the smallest) and all the rest of the list. Blackmon was born in Stuttgart, Arkansas, and grew up in Leland, Mississippi, in the Mississippi Delta.He has said that the small town of 6,000 was evenly . 3 0 obj Slavery by Another Name History Background By Nancy O'Brien Wagner, Bluestem Heritage Group Introduction For more than seventy-five years after the Emancipation Proclamation and the end of the Civil War, thousands of blacks were systematically forced to work against their will. PBS, with its nearly 360 member stations, offers all Americans the opportunity to explore new ideas and new worlds through television and online content. He saw them as a great source of profit. The Great Depression, mechanization, and other factors lead sharecropping to fade away in the 1940s. Photo: Michael A. Schwartz Photography. We meet the inspiring educators associated with, In June of 1892, Homer Plessy was arrested for violating Louisianas Separate Car Act. They had a certain amount of economic freedom. yIA% u|\Xm\klEg:yyR$D"9X$BV%eE(x~p acDm|1N:HlMH6GGX]~{(21Da(cz!}0 Ay1\gG\LfpHvpUOyqql6l^oz+>~c^gj]JqB2EDSWi#)w L.`> o yw g`qzRD- Y\ |sd`q@?26 )7Lb zKI >> that was sarah huckabee sanders on tuesday. 4 SLAVERY BY ANOTHER NAME The camp had supplied tens of thousands of men over five decades to a suc cession of prison mines ultimately purchased by U.S. Steel in 1907. Please check your inbox to confirm. And there are long-term consequences for this these practices, which link which over the years have linked criminality and race. . <> The presentation will be livestreamed on Zoom beginning at 3 p.m. and can be accessed from a PC, Mac, Linux, iOS or Android at https://csusb.zoom.us . tG$ ?`ix_})~u~a-jD!~1mhL\aJ.\7gC IK!*L#q$%No]+%onMM`l4myD2Xz6Q-KzF7$YHv},inIJWY kbN5&w Y H ^s%l%0A]a{*2!dX0azf CG# y|(Mk[5)@'frLJipb)YL#e8ahqKEl_VCLSj6,3p75^-_K8dS*=!Iq}! r>I`z +S$8rtrOO.V=rz[ Now, a history of forced labor after the Civil War. Americans were very aware of it. And by the early 20th century, the North had largely decided to let the South do what it wanted to with black people. But the truth is that, by the early 20th century, most of America didn't really care anymore. And there were rafts of laws that effectively criminalized black life. That led to some reforms. R_zu $9nNmdmt+$(0 a;91Pg]pk0QnkO94BcOUQ&m; `20ej[EwdkJy0g0v{o5AD+YE( RSC}Lc A production of TPT National Productions in association with Two Dollars & A Dream, Inc. Co-Executive Producer Douglas A. Blackmon. The film tells how even as chattel slavery came to an end in 1865, thousands of African Americans were pulled back into . , funded by the Open Society Campaign for Black Male Achievement. And that's what had happened to Green Cottenham. However, states and communities across the South ignored these federal mandates by passing black codes, laws that served to essentially re-enslave African Americans. View Slavery by Another Name.pdf from HIST 1493 at Tulsa Community College. 183 0 obj <>stream Copyright 2023 Public Broadcasting Service (PBS), The report examines state standards, course requirements, frameworks, and support for teachers in each state. Executive in Charge of Production Gerry Richman. - The Strategy of Nonviolence. Produced bytpt National Productionsand directed by Sam Pollard, Slavery by Another Name was a selection of the 2012 Sundance Film Festival and aired on PBS that same year as part of Black History Month. Hun- dreds of them had not survived. It was primarily imposed on African American men in the South and lasted until World War II. Slavery by Another Name is produced by tpt National Productions, a division of Twin Cities Public Television (tpt), the PBS affiliate for Minneapolis/St. Douglas A. Blackmon is the Atlanta Bureau Chief of the Wall Street Journal. Slavery by Another Name is a 90-minute documentary that challenges one of Americans' most cherished assumptions: the belief that slavery in this country ended with the Emancipation Proclamation. This immense system of forced, unpaid labor was a shocking reality that has often gone unacknowledged. In many cases, they were sent to the South coal mines, including some owned by businessman and former slave owner John Milner. PBS broad array of programs has been consistently honored by the industrys most coveted award competitions. The programs media-making focus will help African American and Latino boys create audio recordings of their personal narratives and engage in meaningful civil discourse around social justice issues. Their status . But first, we need you to sign in to PBS using one of the services below. 1 About Slavery by Another Name in the Classroom To increase the opportunities for young people to learn, interact, and engage around the history of forced labor, educational materials have been developed by Felicia Pride and Blackmon, along with a team of other Wall Street Journal writers, was a finalist in 2011 for another Pulitzer Prize, for their investigation into the causes of the BP oil spill last year. Nearly all were black men arrested and then leased" by state.and county governments to U.S. Steel or the compa nies it had acquired.^ lJ(5JHe;g:tP.vKh}KYZ)OI Xc- The country had been fighting over the role of African-Americans for almost a generation at that point. The film tells how even as chattel slavery came to an end in the South in 1865, thousands of African Americans were pulled back into forced . And, in fact, when there was outrage or concern about this system back in the early 20th century, it was typically when a white person there's a story in the film of a young man Martin Tabert, who was a traveler from the Pacific Northwest, who ends up sucked into a forced labor camp in Florida and eventually whipped to death under horrifying conditions. Once convicted, African Americans were leased to coal mines, brick yards, plantations and turpentine farms and forced to work without pay. targeted for national PBS broadcast in 2011. `Q&TiReIqdl\JCBX2jJ%_UUV# qt|yWdI\3 O96` .Vo+cqZ'CXK{ciKCJ{f4ZD^m'w?O)@`xP8b M%6%Ysk@XlxAf p#q .d>Sr[k=3 >Y4{q;'au94w |7l8ap"c3%zn7|%VVN5E\xs )A [&d !bD9: JiJ ci@ Slavery by Another Name airs at 8 p.m. on February 13, 2012 on Eight, Arizona PBS. It's a story of American history. <>>> In 1865, the passage of the Thirteenth Amendment constitutionally outlawed slavery, and African American looked forward to what they would make of their new-found freedom. ; Automated Transcription The most accurate AI-powered transcription on the market. A documentary that recounts the many ways in which American slavery persisted as a practice many decades after its supposed abolition.A documentary that recounts the many ways in which American slavery persisted as a practice many decades after its supposed abolition.A documentary that recounts the many ways in which American slavery persisted as a practice many decades after its supposed abolition. Episode 1: "The Downward Spiral". Sharecropping is a system where the landlord/planter allows a tenant to use the land in exchange for a share of the crop. It was a shocking reality that often went unacknowledged, then and now: A huge system of forced, unpaid labor, mostly affecting Southern black men, that lasted until World War II. Book Non-fiction. Specific program information and updates for press are available at pbs.org/pressroom or by following PBS Pressroom on Twitter. 336 pages. %PDF-1.5 Biography. hbbd``b`v S4 . 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