Silencing Houston's Jim Crow - Houston Student Movement

Silencing Houston's Jim Crow is a compelling new media project that explores how several brave Texas Southern University students tore down the walls of segregation in Houston, Texas from 1960 to 1963. This gripping tale documents the first sit-in in Houston on March 4, 1960 and features interviews with three of the students and original footage. The story was produced for an Internet-based audience and has interactive features to engage the viewer. It is the story of the civil rights movement's unsung heroes. It adds an important voice to the nation's civil rights story. The website www.houstonstudentmovement.com has more information about this extraordinary story.

Producers Serbino Sandifer-Walker, Ted Irving, Chad Lewis, Desmond Lewis, Don Singleterry, Charles Hudson, Dr. Dino Sandifer, Holly Hogrobrooks, Lavoisier Breing, Christopher Burton, Odunze Clunkwemeka, Nakia Cooper, Jamal Ensley, Chardae D. Glover, Myra Griffin, Esmond Gordon, Shalechia Moore, Gloria Okere, Laura Ashley Pickens, Daimaris Raleigh,Cherie Watson, Charslynn J. White, Tamika L. White, Katiera Winfrey.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• Civil
• Rights
• Movement
• Student
• movement
• Texas
• Southern
• University
• Jim
• Crow
• Houston
• sit-in
• documentary

[MIKECNW]

It's interesting how YOU DON'T HEAR MUCH ABOUT TEXAS DURRING THE EARLY CR movement.

Everything seemed focused east of the Mississsippi River.

How come?

BTW, Sorry I hit the Caps button while typing.

[walkerwalker123]

@MIKECNW There were media blackouts in Houston.

[smithdm18]

This is great information and amazing video. It is unbelievable that in America people experienced this kind of treatment. Thank you for sharing this film.

[cyneyy3]

thank you for sharing.

[MIKECNW]

@walkerwalker123

I don't understand.

Wouldn't that have been the case all over the south?

[empressoffrance]

@loblg88 I understand but I would not like hot soup poured over my head, hoses and mad dogs turned on me. I remember all that and the nation watched in shock. Those ppl were heroes in my mind. They had more courage than myself.

[loblg88]

Great video. I would love to do a sit in. Couldnt imagine the adrenaline rush and sense of pride I'd have sitting there and having people awe over me trying to make a difference.

[ibrahima1964]

can you believe it? it was just in 1960.

[mrmonnet]

Nice video.

[TheElizabethShow]

thanks for the footage and information i am doing a thing on this because i chose this as my topic and it helped alot!

[freein2339]

In the words of the Last Poets..."Blessed are those who struggle"...

[missfowler22]

this has helped me with my students to help them understand how awful it was