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Classroom | Casualties of the War on Drugs

President Reagan's "War on Drugs" fell disproportionally hard on black communities as new mandatory drug sentencing laws put a generation of young African Americans in prison. This video is an excerpt from Episode Six: A More Perfect Union (1968 – 2013), the final episode of The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross with Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

Length 05:12 Premiere: 11/26/13

The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross

Specials

Classroom | Yes We Can: Barack Obama

Length 06:23 Premiere Date 11/26/13

Classroom | Black Power: Demanding a Brilliant Future

Length 05:17 Premiere Date 11/26/13

Classroom | Black is Beautiful: Afrocentricity

Length 04:42 Premiere Date 11/26/13

Classroom| The Rise of the Black Middle Class

Length 04:46 Premiere Date 11/26/13

Classroom | Casualties of the War on Drugs

Length 05:12 Premiere Date 11/26/13

Classroom | Fighting the Power: Hip Hop

Length 06:47 Premiere Date 11/26/13

Classroom | The Limits of Rights: Economic Injustice

Length 04:08 Premiere Date 11/26/13

Classroom | Preparing for Sit-Ins

Length 03:28 Premiere Date 11/19/13

Classroom | Ruby Bridges

Length 03:28 Premiere Date 11/19/13

Classroom | Rosa Parks

Length 04:01 Premiere Date 11/19/13

Classroom | The Great Migration

Length 01:44 Premiere Date 11/12/13

Classroom | Life After the Emancipation Proclamation

Length 04:33 Premiere Date 11/12/13

Classroom | Separate and Unequal

Length 06:30 Premiere Date 11/12/13

Classroom | The Subjugation of African Americans

Length 03:19 Premiere Date 11/12/13

Classroom | Resenting Prosperity and Equality

Length 06:07 Premiere Date 11/12/13

Classroom | A Calculated Act

Length 03:46 Premiere Date 11/05/13

Classroom | The Cotton Gin

Length 03:58 Premiere Date 10/29/13

Classroom | Nat Turner Rebellion

Length 02:59 Premiere Date 10/29/13

Classroom | Frederick Douglass

Premiere Date 10/29/13

Classroom | Fugitive Slave Act

Premiere Date 10/29/13

Classroom | Hutchinson's Rebellion

Length 04:01 Premiere Date 10/22/13

Classroom | St. Domingue

Length 02:27 Premiere Date 10/22/13

Classroom | Haitian Carnival

Length 02:09 Premiere Date 10/22/13

Classroom | Creative Resistance

Length 01:10 Premiere Date 10/22/13

Classroom | St. Augustine, Florida

Length 03:44 Premiere Date 10/22/13

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