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Trailer | Fatal Flood
In 1927, the Mississippi River flooded from New Orleans, leaving a million homeless.
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Trailer | The Murder of Emmett Till
Emmett Till's murder and the acquittal of his killers mobilized the Civil Rights Movement.
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Surviving the Dust Bowl: Trailer
The determined people who clung to their homes and way of life enduring drought and dust.
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The Great Famine Preview
The story of the American effort to relieve starvation in 1921 Soviet Russia.
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Trailer | Plague at the Golden Gate
How the bubonic plague in 1900 set off fear and anti-Asian sentiment in San Francisco.