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21 William H. Chafe, The Unfinished Journey: America Since World War II (New York: Oxford UniversityPress: 1999), 540.22 With films such as JFK (1991), Malcolm X (1992), Schindler's List (1993), Amistad (1997), SavingPrivate Ryan (1998) and The Patriot (2000).23 Scarlett: The Sequel to Margaret Mitchell's Gone With the Wind. Jim Cullen, The Civil War in PopularCulture: A Reusable Past (Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1995), 103.24 Gomery, Shared Pleasures, 165.HR 687: A Bill To establish a commission to commemorate the sesquicentennial of the American CivilWar.' Available from: thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin (accessed 4 June, 2005).26 The North Carolina sesquicentennial Foundation states on its website that 'in 2011 North Carolina willcommemorate the 150 1 anniversary of its participation in the Confederacy and its involvement in the War forSouthern Independence.' Available from: dir.yahoo.com/Regional/U_SJNorth_Carolina/Arts_andHumanities/History/Civil_War (accessed 4 June, 2005).27 In particular those of Emmett Till (1955) and of James Chaney, Michael Schwerner and Andrew Goodman(1964).78Gerstle, American Crucible, 369.29 Fairclough, Better Day Coming, 326.Chafe, The Unfinished Journey, 528.31 In 2005 black unemployment was 10.8% compared to 4.7% for whites. Over 70% of whites owned theirown homes but less than 50% of blacks. Life expectancy of blacks was six years less than for whites. Blackswere twice as likely as whites to die from disease, accident or murder and three times more likely to be jailedand given longer sentences. The net worth of black households was ten times less than that of whites. PaulHarris, The Observer, 9 October 2005.32 Fairclough, Better Day Coming, 328-30.33 Duncan Campbell, The Guardian, 18 September, 2000.34 Cullen, The Civil War in Popular Culture, 196-99. Tara McPherson discusses this in 'Both Kinds of Arms:Remembering the Civil War' in The Velvet Light Trap, 35 (1995), 3-18.35 The deeper truth of Gods and Generals seems too be that the war was the south's 'second war ofindependence'.. ..that the cause of the war was not slavery but the oppressive power of the centralgovernment, which wished to tyrannize over the southern states; that the south only wished to exercise itsconstitutional right to secede, but was thwarted by a power-hungry Lincoln; that southern patriots were thetrue heirs of the American Revolutionary generation.. ...that the Confederate cause was noble.' MackubinThomas Owens, 'War and Memory: Gods and Generals as History,' National Review Online. Availablefrom: nationalreview.com/owens/owens022503.asp (accessed 12 December, 2004).36 Melvyn Stokes, The Civil War in the Movies,' in Susan-Mary Grant and Peter J. Parish, (eds.), Legacy ofDisunion: The Enduring Significance of the American Civil War (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State UniversityPress, 2003), 70.37 David Blight, The Birth of a Genre: Slavery on Film' Common-Place, Vol.1 (July, 2001). Available from:common-place.org/vol-OI/no-04/slavery/blight (accessed 9 June, 2005).38 The copyright on the book expires in 2011. Jim Cullen, The Civil War in Popular Culture: A ReusablePast (Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1995), 103.156