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Reflections on Emancipation
1:27
Descendant Tonya Groomes reflects on how slaves must have felt at the end of the Civil War
Reflections on a Family's Migration
1:25
Descendant Sharon Malone reflects on the Great Migration.
Brutalization and Coal Mining
2:15
Historian Khalil Muhammad discusses torture and mining conditions of convict labor.
The System of Sharecropping
2:07
Historian Mary Ellen Curtin breaks down the emergence of sharecropping.
Reflections on Peonage
1:26
Descendant Kate Willis describes peonage and how it worked.
The Purpose of Terrorism
1:53
Descendant Sharon Malone talks about the true purpose of terrorism and its results.
The Good, the Bad and the Worst
1:19
Historian Pete Daniel talks about the positive and negative things going on in history.
Reflections on the Ku Klux Klan
1:27
Descendant Barbara Belisle remembers visits from the KKK from her childhood.
Growing Up in the South
2:19
Descendant Bernard Kinsey reflects on growing up in the South.
Reflections on Storytelling
4:27
Sam Pollard talks about the importance of storytelling and the influence it's had on him.
The Significance of the Ku Klux Klan
1:39
Historian Mary Ellen Curtin explains the significance of the Klan.
Reflections on the Company Town of Westfield
3:09
UW Clemons explains the company town built by US Steel in the 1900s for its workers.
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