ID #:
253D
Film Type:
PBS home video
Color or BW:
Color and B&W
Description:
Money, Mississippi, August 1955, a fourteen-year-old black boy whistled at a white woman. Not realizing he had broke the unwritten laws of Jim Crow South until three days later when two white men dragged him out of bed in the middle of the night beat him brutally then shot and killed him. The killers were arrested and charged but quickly acquitted by and all-white jury.
Keywords:
20th century, Jim Crow South, Mississippi, race relations, racism, Southern history, United States