Jim Crow
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The Cold War simmered, Emmett Till had been murdered less than a year earlier and in Montgomery, Ala., a young minister named Martin Luther King Jr. was challenging Jim Crow.
Set in the Mississippi Delta during the Jim Crow era, the film is often characterized as a horror movie, which is understandable given the villain is a vampire.
From Los Angeles Times
“The film speaks to the Black experience in America within these borders of 1930s Jim Crow South,” Coogler mused.
From Los Angeles Times
Olsen: “Sinners” is rooted so specifically in the world of the Jim Crow South here in America.
From Los Angeles Times
Yet the collapse of Reconstruction in 1877 and the rise of Jim Crow left him embittered, mourning the rollback of hard-won rights.
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