Born in 1900, young Margaret Mitchell was profoundly influenced by a violent race riot perpetrated by white mobs against innocent blacks. The Atlanta Race Riot of 1906 ravaged her home city and haunted the hub of the South for decades. Margaret Mitchell: American Rebel premieres nationally on Monday, April 2 from 9-10 p.m (check local listings).
Features
Biography of Margaret Mitchell
Read about the turbulent life of the author of Gone With the Wind.
Interview with Pamela Roberts
The director of Margaret Mitchell: American Rebel talks about her creative process
Is Gone With The Wind Literature?
Scholars and devoted readers of Margaret Mitchell's classic novel have been argue
Margaret Mitchell's Pulitzer Prize Night
Mitchell received news of the prize by phone and hid from the press
Maybelle Stephens Mitchell, Southern Suffragist
The most important person in Margaret Mitchell's life was her mother Maybelle
The Grand Premiere
An unprecedented crowd turned out for opening night of Gone With the Wind in Atlanta
Pat Conroy: My Mother and Gone With The Wind
Pat Conroy tells a poignant story of listening to his mother read Gone With the Wind
Interview with Margaret Mitchell from 1936
Margaret Mitchell discusses the ways in which she conducted research to retain historical accuracy in...
Margaret Mitchell: American Rebel
Premieres nationally Monday, April 2 at 9 p.m. (ET) on PBS (check local listings)
Steve Brodner sketches Cab Calloway Part 2
Stever Brodner creates a sketch of Cab to "Minnie The Moocher" with a surprise at the end
Steve Brodner sketches Cab Calloway Part 1
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