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Legacy Of Integration On The Newshour
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(DVD - Code 1) (US-Import)
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The integration of public schools and the miIitary were seminaI accompIishments in the fight for equal opportunity in America. The NewsHour takes a Iook at the Iegacy of the Brown decision, the executive order to integrate the miIitary and the LittIe Rock Nine.
In the first segment, journalist Haynes Johnson, Ohio State Treasurer Kenneth BIackwell and historians Doris Kearns Goodwin, Michael BeschIoss and Roger Wilkins refIect on how the integration of CentraI High School by the Little Rock Nine affected race relations in America. ln a second segment, NewsHour historians and a military official discuss the anniversary of President Truman?s Executive Order 9981, which integrated the armed forces in 1948. In a finaI segment, Gwen Ifill talks to four experts about the ways Brown v. Board of Education has brought about change, and the ways it has failed to do so. |
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