Tommy Tainant
Diamond Member
The Black American Fight for Freedom
Fifty years on from the promise of equality and the Civil Rights Act, this documentary reveals the moments where America had the chance to become more equal and why that didn’t happen.
www.bbc.co.uk
I dont know if this is available over there.
Its basically explaining why America is where it is today. It starts with the fight against segregated housing in Chicago and features Dorothy Guatreaux a black woman who had the outrageous belief that as an American she could live where she chose.
It showed the barriers she faced from whitey in Chicago She won her case but very little changed.
It moves on to Detroit and the case of Helen Moore , a lady who wanted to send her kids to a better school. It explains how housing affects shooling and eventually life chances. The better off areas get better funded schools and it becomes self perpetuating.
Mrs Moore won her case but it then went to the Supreme Court. They agreed that she was suffering discrimination but declined to back the solution of bussing.
The film moves on to the Justice system but I had lost the will to live and I will watch that later.
Its a sobering watch but it trashed the usual racist bolloks we hear on these forums.