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Sep 12, 2023 · Explore what happened when the small Mississippi town of Leland integrated its public schools in 1970. Told through the remembrances of students, teachers and parents, the film shows how...
ROGER MUDD: In 1954, the Supreme Court made school integration the law of the land, a law to be implemented with all deliberate speed. Last fall, the court ruled that after 15 years,...
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After the Supreme Court’s landmark 1954 decision in Brown v. Board of Education found that racial segregation in public schools was unconstitutional, little more than token efforts were made to...
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Sep 12, 2023 · Explore what happened when the small Mississippi town of Leland integrated its public schools in 1970. Told through the remembrances of students, teachers and parents, the film shows how the...
- 107 min
Sep 8, 2023 · Set against vast historic and demographic changes unfolding across America, “The Harvest” steps back in time to explore Mississippi’s brutal history of racial intolerance and segregation — a...
Official website: https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/harvest/In the fall of 1970, schools in a deeply divided Leland, Mississippi complied wit...
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Sep 10, 2023 · In THE HARVEST: INTEGRATING MISSISSIPPI'S SCHOOLS, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Douglas A. Blackmon looks back at how school integration transformed his hometown of Leland,...
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