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The Civil Rights Battle Moves from the Streets to the Internet

May 16, 2008

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As her eyes scrolled down the computer screen, the forwarded message read like a scene from a Jim Crow-era documentary. A tree that only Whites could sit under, nooses hung in a schoolyard, a Black teen facing a 22-year sentence for beating a White classmate.

Tavis Smiley . Archives . Monday, March 31, 2008 | PBS

Mar 31, 2008

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In the first of a week-long series of shows from Memphis in conjunction with the 40th anniversary of the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Tavis talks with Rev. Al Sharpton and the National Civil Rights Museum's Beverly Robertson.