Jim Crow

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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.

From The Wall Street Journal

Both of Mr. Smith’s parents fled the Jim Crow South, met in Washington and imbued their son with ambition, purpose and tenacity.

From The Wall Street Journal