When Black neighborhoods across America erupted in violence in the summer of 1967, President Johnson appointed a commission to find the cause for the unrest. Their findings offered an unvarnished assessment of American race relations.
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.
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.
The Cancer Detectives tells the untold story of the first-ever war on cancer and the coalition of people who fought tirelessly to save women from cervical cancer—which was once the number one cancer killer of women.
There are over 300 PBS Stations across the country, with many sharing history right from their own backyard. Check out more stories of environmental injustice and resilience from California, Louisiana, Idaho, New Mexico and Massachusetts.
