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I absolutely love this series of American History documentaries. They’re so well done, honest, and blunt. This is the type of docs History Channel used to make but don’t anymore, and when they do they water it all down.
This aired last week, a week after “The Busing Battleground”, another terrific documentary.
I was reading the comments and people from Mississippi who experienced that era said this documentary shows it exactly how it was. It was a very hard time.
| by Anonymous | reply 2 | September 22, 2023 4:41 PM |
The trailer for those who like to view trailers ahead of possibly watching anything.
| by Anonymous | reply 1 | September 22, 2023 4:17 PM |
My dad was in the Army and sent to Mississippi when James Meredith integrated Ole Miss. It really fucked him up to see how these "normal, nice southern gentleman and ladies" turned into absolute violent monsters the second they saw him uniform and were in a crowd. He always has an exit plan in a crowd to this day. The army also showed him how normal Black people were and how shitty they were treated and as a platoon leader, he got an idea. When they were out on maneuvers around Alabama, Mississippi, Texas and Georgia and needed to refill the giant gas tanks on their trucks and get the soldiers drinks and snacks, he'd let a Black soldier walk or Jeep ahead, send them into the little gas station and if he was denied service, my dad would go in and tell the worker at the store how much business they'd lost that day. It was usually more money than they'd make in a month. As a result he was friends with a lot of the black guys and was disgusted to see that Army made them live in were essentially old chicken coops. His complaints didn't win him a lot friends among the officers tho and he was passed over for promotions at Lieutenant. So he got out and a few years later we invaded Vietnam.
| by Anonymous | reply 2 | September 22, 2023 4:41 PM |
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