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Brutalization and Coal Mining
2:15
Historian Khalil Muhammad discusses torture and mining conditions of convict labor.
The Economics of Labor
1:19
Douglas A. Blackmon talks about the reasons behind convict labor practices of the day.
FDR and White Southerners
2:31
Historian Risa Goluboff explains FDR's administration's strategy on Plessy vs. Ferguson.
Emancipation and the Work Force
2:32
Historian James Grossman explains how Emancipation changed the Southern labor.
Booker T. Washington and Teddy Roosevelt
2:37
Historians Risa Goluboff and Harry Lembeck talk about Booker T. Washington.
Prosecuting Peonage Trials Begins
2:36
Historian Harry Lembeck explains progressivism.
The Rise of Progressivism
2:04
Historian Risa Goluboff describes the rise of political progressivism.
Peonage and Pearl Harbor
2:31
Historian Risa Goluboff explains prosecution of peonage cases after Pearl Harbor attacks.
The Significance of the Chain Gang
1:38
Historian Talitha LeFlouria explains the chain gang systems significance in the South.
Separate but Equal
1:55
Douglas A. Blackmon describes the crushing effects of Plessy v. Ferguson.
Reflections on Jim Crow
3:06
Descendant Tonya Groomes talks to her dad about his experiences growing up in the South.
Reflections on Sharecropping
2:18
U.W. Clemons talked about his grandparents and parents and their lives of sharecropping.
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