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The Future of America's Past
9:30 pm - 10:00 pm Tuesday, September 1
School Interrupted
Season 2 · Episode 4
Ed Ayers learns about the drama that led up to the outlawing of school segregation. In conversations with two of the student strikers, he discovers how black women activists defied the school closures by starting grassroots schools, and meets an author whose grandfather helped start a whites-only "segregation academy."
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