features interviews from many of the unknown names but w/their footage during the most violent times of the civil rights movement.
footage includes the fire hoses and dogs on children in Alabama, integration protests from whites in Louisiana, Mississippi and So. Carolina. and by the way, in some southern cities, the entire white community came out to protest equal rights for blacks, including w/their kids. even features the white kids in school attacking the new black students, and in well known schools in New Orleans that were never mentioned before in the usual stories. (scary that type of hatred existed in "America, land of the free", even scarier is that we don't know if any of those white students protesting equal rights is now a lawmaker, or had a change of heart, but there were school names and yearbooks featured in the documentary)
even a klansman who partcipated in killing Vernon Dahmer stated "all Dahmer wanted was a fair chance in life, and I took that away". he admits how he got involved, and what the klan rules were.
also featured are interviews from whites who were children at the time their family was attacked and harassed by the klan for their family doing anything "black" related, even attending Medgar Evers funeral.
funniest, yet saddest thing was whites from New York travelling w/blacks in the south stopping to eat and being told: we don't serve blacks here. the response was, "well we'll wait here until you do!" the look on 1 NY woman's face was priceless. she said being from NY she wasn't used to that and was about to do something violent. but somebody had to hold her back
sistah gurl was gonna open up the can of whup ass, NY style she was 40 years old w/kids, and is now 85 but looks like she's 55. her name flashed by too quickly.thought the documentary was great because you wondered about the thousands of folks who participated and took a stand against Jim Crow Laws, but never knew their name. and this documentary features numerous random folks who were part of every major struggle and heartbreaking incident. their names briefly preceeded their information. would be nice to thank them all, as they're still alive.
