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Dramatization depicts: Dred Scott, a Black slave, defending his case in the United States Supreme Court during the 19th century
Artist impression of Dred Scott, an African American slave from the 19th century. Artist impression of Chief Justice Roger B. Taney, who ruled on Dred Scott’s historic case. A dramatization depicts Dred Scott’s case in the Supreme court in 1857. Dred Scott questions the Chief Justice as he stands in front in the court, saying, "I want my Constitutional rights, I want my freedom in this court." Off camera, the judge says that Scott and his people are considered to be "beings of an inferior order and altogether unfit to associate with the white race." Interspersed with the testimony is modern dramatization footage of whites saying, “Damn, we have our rights!” and "they ain't gonna be in my grandson's class!" View of court gavel being slammed. Dred Scott walks away. A view of an empty courtroom. “He ain’t gonna be in my grandson’s class!” a man said, pertaining to the possibility of African-American students studying alongside White students. Artist impression of America’s Founding Fathers and Thomas Jefferson. Thomas Jefferson's signature on Constitution of the United States. Close up of words in Constitution noting that African-Americans are equal to "three fifths" of whites.
Black Americans struggling to fight for equal rights after the American Civil War during the 19th century
Artist impressions of African Americans fighting during the Civil War. Images of African American soldiers during civil war. Illustrations of men holding the Confederate flag during the Civil War. Headline of newspaper announcing, Surrender of General Lee!" and "The Year of Jubilee has come!" Artist impression of Black American congressmen being mocked inside the United States Congress during the 19th century. Artist impression of Ku Klux Klan members holding rifles near a ballot box and hanging ( lynching ) a black American man.
Jim Crow Laws affecting African Americans from finding justice and equality despite of the 13th and 14th Amendments during the 20th century
Artist impression of the House of Representatives as the United States Congress passes the 13th Amendment to the United States Constitution. Images of Thaddeus Stevens and Charles Sumner, the leaders of the Radical Republican faction of the Republican Party during the 1860s. African-American student, victim of the Lamar High School School Bus Attack, listens to Frank Jackson, the attorney defending him, as he lectures him about the history of African-American rights and freedom. Off camera, Jackson quotes the 14th Amendment, saying, "no state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens." Image of Senator Benjamin Tillman of South Carolina. Off camera, Jackson quotes Tillman's comment about "virus of equality..." Artist impression of Black Americans in court during Reconstruction. Students inside the school bus on their way to Lamar High School School before bus attack. Image of Black-Americans inside a bus during the 1950s. Jim Crow signs seen, including a sign reading “White only Ladies Rest Room”. Image of a doctor standing in a door labeled “COLORED” while talking to patient with baby. Image of door with sign that says “White-Trade”. Image of door with sign that says “Colored-Trade”. Image of President Rutherford Hayes. Fire burning. Artist impression of Ku Klux Klan members in costume hanging (lynching) a Black American. Man menacingly holds a bat and says “They’ll gonna wish they was never born”. A view of the United States Supreme Court. Artist Impression of Homer Plessy refusing to move from the White people coach to the Jim Crow train coach in 1896. “Equal justice under law” engraved on the front of the United States Supreme Court Building in Washington DC. Artist impression of John Marshall Harlan, former Attorney General of Kentucky and great dissenter of cases that restricted civil rights such as “Plessy v. Fegurson”. “But until a majority of judges on the Supreme Court would agree, Black Americans would find little justice” says Frank Jackson.
Dramatization depicts: African American lawyers as instrumental to secure civil rights for African Americans after WW2
Image of Justice Louis Brandeis, Supreme Court Justice who advised the President of Howard University to make a fine law school for Black Americans. Artists impression of a Black American lawyer defending a case in court after World War II. Dramatization shows female African American in school bus exclaiming “South Carolina’s run out of time, run out of courts!” Frank Jackson explains to his client how Howard University-trained lawyers completely changed the roles of the Black Americans. Image of Thurgood Marshall, the first African American Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. View of Howard University (2400 6th St NW, Washington, DC 20059, United States). An image of Thurgood Marshall with fellow lawyers, some of them Black Americans. Artist impression of Thurgood Marshall defending client in a Jim Crow Court hearing. Dramatization...African-American Lamar High School Student says “And when the courts say “go!”, you go! That’s the law!”
African Americans registering to vote and on a bus. African American man rakes leaves while children play in vacant lot.
Image of Thurgood Marshall, the first African American Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. African Americans lined up to register to vote. Sign reads, “Board of Registrars”. African Americans taking an oath for voter registration. Interior of bus with African American passengers. City street view. Children play in an abandoned lot. African American man raking leaves in suburban yard. Image of Thurgood Marshal. Artist impression of interrogation of an African American prisoner behind bars.
Dramatization depicts: African-American students on their way to school and aftermath of Lamar High School Bus attack in South Carolina
African-American lawyer, Frank Jackson, talks to “Cliff”, one of the victims of the Lamar High School Bus Attack in 1970. African-American children lining up in school. Dramatization depicts a mob of angry white residents, one holding a stick in his hand as a club. White woman, wearing headscarf and shades, brandishes a frying pan. Dramatization shows Lamar High School with state troopers guarding the front of the school (216 N Darlington Ave, Lamar, SC 29069). Dramatization shows some of the mob being apprehended by state troopers. African-American students laugh inside the bus. Image of Robert Evander McNair, the Governor of South Carolina from 1965-1971. Attorney Jackson speaks to Cliff about Governor McNair’s dedication to protect African-American children’s rights to go to any school. Images of Governor McNair and Chief Justice Roger B. Taney. “ Only when the rights of the constitution are surely in the hands of poor men, as well as rich men, black, brown, red, and yellow men, as well as white men, can the constitution promise justice to share its equal place in law and order,” Attorney Frank Jackson says. Closing Credits.
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