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The story of the Mexican American miners whose labor battles shaped the course of Arizona history. It was only in 1946 that a two-tier wage system for white and Mexican Americans was abolished.
Marcus Garvey: Look for Me in the Whirlwind
Marcus Garvey, a black nationalist leader from Jamaica, had great successes and failures before being jailed and deported from the US in 1927.
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Jubilee Singers: Sacrifice and Glory
In the decade after the Civil War, former slaves sing their way into a nation's heart with spirituals, the religious anthems of slavery.
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Jesse Owens
His stunning triumph at the 1936 Olympic Games captivated the world even as it infuriated the Nazis. Premiering May 1.
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Soundtrack for a Revolution
The story of the American civil rights movement is told through its powerful music -- the freedom songs that protesters sang on picket lines, in mass meetings, in police wagons, and in jail cells as they fought for justice and equality.
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We Shall Remain
The story of Native peoples’ valiant resistance to expulsion from their lands and the extinction of their culture.
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Scottsboro: An American Tragedy
The trial of nine falsely accused African American teens in Alabama would draw North and South into their sharpest conflict since the Civil War.
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Adam Clayton Powell
A civil rights leader in Harlem before entering politics, Powell was one of the most charismatic black leaders of the 20th century.
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Stonewall Uprising
In 1969, homosexuality was illegal in almost every state... but that was about to change. The Stonewall riots marked a major turning point in the modern gay civil rights movement.
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