SEASON: 1
EPISODE: 3 - Into the Fire (1861-1896)
SYNOPSIS
Blacks flee plantations to serve in the United States Colored Troops; after emancipation, blacks seek economic, political and civil rights.
- Henry Louis Gates Jr.Self - Professor of History, Harvard University
- Vincent BrownSelf - historian
- Bernard E. Powers Jr.Self - historian
- Peniel E. JosephSelf - historian
- David Levering LewisSelf - historian
- Vernon E. Jordan Jr.Self - lawyer and civil rights activist
- Thavolia GlymphSelf - Historian
- Kathleen CleaverSelf