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Radio

[|This American Life Episode 105: Take a Negro Home]
Two stories of people who try to cross the color line — and why it's still so hard. We hear the story of a failed interracial marriage and the story of a teenager from a poor inner city neighborhood (Cedric Jennings, pictured) who ends up at an Ivy League University — and how he barely survives there.

Journalism
===[|Fearing a Class System in the Classroom; A Strict Curriculum . . . but Only for Failing Schools, Mostly in Poor Areas of New York]=== Abby Goodnough, New York Times January, 19, 2003

[|Still Separate, Still Unequal: America's Educational Apartheid]
Jonathan Kozol, Harpers Magazine, September, 2005

[|Through a Lens, Darkly]
David Margolick, Vanity Fair, September, 24, 2007

During the historic 1957 desegregation of Little Rock Central High School, 26-year-old journalist Will Counts took a photograph that gave an iconic face to the passions at the center of the civil-rights movement—two faces, actually: those of 15-year-old Elizabeth Eckford on her first day of school, and her most recognizable tormentor, Hazel Bryan. The story of how these two women struggled to reconcile and move on from the event is a remarkable journey through the last half-century of race relations in America.

[|A Prom Divided] New York Times piece on the segregated private prom held in Montgomery County High School in Mount Vernon, Ga. media type="youtube" key="JSlolY9OBSc?fs=1" height="385" width="480"

Film
[|With All Deliberate Speed] Documentary filmmaker Peter Gilbert unearths the legacy of the landmark Supreme Court decision in Brown v. Board of Education -- where it was ruled that "in the field of public education, the doctrine of 'separate but equal' has no place" -- via never-before-heard stories from people directly responsible for, and greatly affected by, the original case.

[|Prom Night in Mississippi] With actor Morgan Freeman's support, Mississippi's Charleston High School stages its first senior prom to integrate both black and white students. This documentary examines the perspectives of several seniors as they prepare for this historic event. A group of disapproving white parents, who refused to meet and talk with the filmmakers, organized a separate White Prom for their children to attend.

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Television

Eyes on The Prize

Integration of Central High in Little Rock
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