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September 5, 2023 | 9:12 AM
Watch American Experience: The Busing Battleground on WITF TV
May 24, 2023 | 10:02 AM
New book advocates for ways to end housing segregation
Richard and Leah Rothstein says government created segregation but activists could work toward ending it
March 24, 2021 | 8:14 AM
Blinding of Isaac Woodward
Discover the 1946 incident of racial violence by police that led to the racial awakening of President Harry Truman and set the stage for the landmark 1954 Supreme Court Brown v. Board of Education decision, jump-starting the civil rights movement.
March 1, 2020 | 10:45 AM
The cruel story behind the ‘Reverse Freedom Rides’
Fuming over the civil rights movement, Southern segregationists had concocted a way to retaliate against Northern liberals. In 1962, they tricked about 200 African Americans from the South into moving north.
By Gabrielle Emanuel/WGBH 