28 May Riot Report FILM

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  The Riot Report | Article

  5 Times U.S. Presidential Commissions Rocked the Country

  What do a long list of iconic and?controversial historical events have in common? They all got the presidential commission treatment.

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  The Riot Report | Article

  'We are in the worst crisis we have known since the Civil War'

  When the city of Detroit went up in flames in 1967, it was the most deadly civil uprising of the century.

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  The Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander Experience

  Celebrate Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander History

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  Plague at the Golden Gate

  Follow the gripping story of the race against time to save San Francisco and the nation from an outbreak of bubonic plague in 1900.

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  Brown v. Board of Education

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  The Blinding of Isaac Woodard

  In 1946, Isaac Woodard, a Black army sergeant on his way home to South Carolina after serving in WWII, was pulled from a bus for arguing with the driver. The local chief of police savagely beat him, leaving him unconscious and permanently blind.

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  Poisoned Ground: The Tragedy at Love Canal

  In the late 1970s, residents of Love Canal in Niagara Falls, NY discovered their neighborhood had been built on a former chemical waste dump. Housewives activated to create a grassroots movement that galvanized the landmark Superfund Bill.

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  PAST FORWARD: Conversations with American Experience

  History is alive. We are still living it. Let’s talk about it.

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  The Riot Report | Article

  The Bombshell Political Report So Shocking a U.S. President Tried to Pretend It Didn't Exist

  LBJ tried to torpedo the official Kerner Commission record. Instead it became a bestseller.

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  Poisoned Ground: The Tragedy at Love Canal | Article

  How a Group of Housewives Changed History

  The women of Love Canal fought to free their families from toxic waste?and created landmark?environmental legislation in the process.

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  The Chinese Exclusion Act | Clip

  The Roots of Anti-Asian Hate in America

  Historian Erica Lee, actor Hoon Lee, and filmmaker Li-Shin Yu speak with executive director of the Center for Asian American Media Stephen Gong about America’s history of discrimination against Asian Americans, and ways that the AAPI community, their allies, and elected officials can work to put an end to racial violence and discrimination.

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  The Riot Report | Article

  Your Own Backyard - The Riot Report

  There are over 300 PBS Stations across the country, with many sharing history right from their own backyard. Check out more stories of racial injustice and resilence from Ohio, North Carolina, New York, California, Minnesota, Alabama and?Wisconsin.