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Booker T. Washington and Teddy Roosevelt
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Historians Risa Goluboff and Harry Lembeck talk about Booker T. Washington.
FDR and White Southerners
2:31
Historian Risa Goluboff explains FDR's administration's strategy on Plessy vs. Ferguson.
Reflections on Growing Up
4:36
Douglas A. Blackmon's son Michael asks what got him interested in this topic.
Reflections on Writing
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Douglas A. Blackmon's daughter Colette asks for advice to becoming a writer.
Reflections on Dreams
2:25
Sam Pollard discusses his dream project: exploring different cultures through their music.
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Historian Khalil Muhammad explains race relations and slavery after Reconstruction.
Why Forced Labor?
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Douglas A. Blackmon and historian Khalil Muhammad explain the Southern economy.
Presidential Reconstruction
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Historian Khalil Muhammad explains the Reconstruction under President Johnson.
The Rise and Fall of Reconstruction
2:37
Historian Risa Goluboff talks about the rise and fall of Reconstruction.
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Descendant Rod Frazer remembers the types of labor on WD McCurdy's plantation.
Reflections on Emancipation
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Descendant Tonya Groomes reflects on how slaves must have felt at the end of the Civil War
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Historian Mary Ellen Curtin talks about coal mining and the reliance on prison labor.
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