In the Shadow of the Capitol

January 31, 1983

Season 1983: Episode 3

Frontline correspondent Charles Cobb journeys to a Washington, DC that tourists rarely see. The nation’s capital, seventy-five percent black, faces widespread poverty, yet it is run by some of the civil-rights movement’s most effective and militant organizers, including Mayor Marion Barry.

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