Just caught up with the first film in the new season (37) of 'American Experience' - 'Forgotten Hero - Walter White And The NAACP'. An informative, and balanced, profile of White along with a history of the NAACP, which serves as a good primer of the development of the civil rights struggle from the end of Reconstruction to the mid 1950's. I say 'primer' as earlier AE films have covered the major events (for example, Scottsboro) in greater detail. For myself, the notable omission is of any reference to the Southern Tenant Farmers Union - generally regarded as the first true racially integrated struggle, where ordinary blacks and whites came together in common economic and social cause, and gave a foretaste of how things could be.
A lot of ground to cover, so it is a long-form (two hours), but well worth your time and attention. Great start to the new season.
