Silencing Houston's Jim Crow - Texas Southern University

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, Hollie 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:

• Texas
• Southern
• University
• sit-in
• civil
• rights
• movement
• Jim
• Crow
• student
• the
• 60s'
• Houston
• documentary

[angelbeta]

I am proud to be a student at TSU.

[berlynn2]

its ashame that the color of youre skin can be so fatal.