EXPLORES SEGREGATION FROM THE END OF THE CIVIL WAR TO THE DAWN OF THE MODERN CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT, AND THE INSPIRING ACHIEVEMENTS OF AFRICAN-AMERICANS WHO FOUGHT AGAINST ITS BRUTALITY

Unprecedented Four-Part Series, Premieres October 1, 2002 On PBS

"I sit in the Jim Crow [railroad] car. But my mind is rejuvenated to strive harder to build a race that will someday rise in majesty and break down every wall of segregation in American Life."

-- Educator Charlotte Hawkins Brown, circa 1900 Lynchings and beatings by night. Demeaning treatment by day. And a life of crushing subordination for ...

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