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BLACK AMERICA SINCE MLK: AND STILL I RISE | Episode 1 Scene: Lowndes County | PBS

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Stokely Carmichael and fellow activists combated voter suppression in Lowndes, AL in 1965. #BlackAmericaPBS, November 15 and 22 on PBS.

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Henry Louis Gates, Jr. looks at the last 50 years of African-American history — from Stokely Carmichael to Barack Obama, James Brown to Beyoncé — charting the remarkable progress made and raising hard questions about the obstacles that remain.

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