Mississippi and the 15th Amendment
By: CBS Reports.
Contributors: Friendly, Fred W.; Schoenbrun, David.; Peters, William, 1921-; CBS News.; CBS Television Network.; Films for the Humanities (Firm)
Series: Civil rights movement: primary sources; Civil rights movement, primary sources
Publisher: Films for the Humanities & Sciences
Place of publication: Princeton, NJ
Format: Videorecording
Number of pages: 57
Subjects: Racism -- Mississippi.; African Americans -- Suffrage -- Mississippi.; African Americans -- Civil rights -- Mississippi.; Voter registration -- Mississippi.; Voter registration -- United States -- Case studies.; Mississippi -- Race relations.; United States -- Race relations -- Case studies.
Genres: Case studies.
Other titles: Mississippi and the Black vote-- 1962.; CBS reports (Television program)
Description: A college student, a schoolteacher and a fellow of the National Science Foundation were all three ruled illiterate by the local circuit clerk and ineligible to vote. Filmed in 1962, this program reveals the double standards and the dangers faced by African-Americans registering to vote in Mississippi. Interviews with local officials, segregationists, lawyers, clergy and citizens on both sides of the color line expose what amounted to a tacit conspiracy to deprive certain people of their constitutional right to stand up and be counted.
Notes: Produced by William Peters ; narration written by David Schoenbrun and William Peters ; executive producer, Fred W. Friendly.

Reporter, David Schoenbrun.

"Originally aired on the CBS Television Network on September 26, 1962" on CBS Reports.

VHS format.

MMS copy: Public performance rights included; not for broadcasting for distance learning.