Barack Obama speaks about the role race has played in his presidential campaign, the criticism of Reverend Jeremiah Wright, and his own perspective on the history of race relati...
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In the civil rights movement, sit-ins emerge as a new, non-violent strategy to end segregation. On "Meet The Press," Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. says the strategy will also caus...
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Harriet Tubman returned to the South 19 times to bring more than 300 slaves to freedom on the Underground Railroad. Much less is known about Tubman’s role as a nurse, spy and so...
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As the opportunities increase for blacks to attend a wide variety of colleges and universities, attendance at historically black colleges has fallen off. Consequently, black col...
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40 years later, Melba Pattillo Beals tells her story of being one of the Little Rock Nine, the group of nine black students who ended segregation at Central High School in Littl...
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Ernest Green is the first black student to graduate from Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas. Green looks back at the first days of desegregation and his experiences go...
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A descendent of one of George Washington’s slaves talks about her efforts to create a public exhibition of the Emancipation Proclamation, in honor of the 130th anniversary of it...
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150 years ago when a slave was bought at an auction, a white family and a black family became connected. The two families have lived and worked together ever since in a constant...
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In an emotional and poetic speech that evokes his own family’s painful history, Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy informs a crowd that Martin Luther King, Jr.has been assassina...
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