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The Strange Demise of Jim Crow 60 min. David Berman. ea. vol: color & b/w. California Newsreel, 149 9th St., #420, San Francisco, CA 94103; 415-621-6169. 2000. $49.95; academic libs., $195 (Rental: $75). Public performance. HIST
These two programs reveal singular chapters in the straggle for human and civil rights in the United States. Oh Freedom After While, narrated by Julian Bond, is the story of the 1939 strike of black and white sharecroppers in southeastern Missouri. As mechanization and federal farm subsidies cut cotton production in the South, sharecroppers were evicted from the land they had worked for years. In addition, the federal subsidy that was meant to …