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The Future of America's Past
A Grave Injustice
Season 1
Episode 4
Shortly after the attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941, the U.S. military and the FBI arrested more than 110,000 American citizens of Japanese ancestry. Taken to desert camps and confined for months or years, many of these Americans lost their homes and businesses. We visit the largest of these camps, now a National Park Service site — and meet those keeping memory alive.
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Young people staged a strike in 1951 to protest segregated public schools.
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In 1869, a golden spike marked the completion of the first transcontinental railroad.
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Long-simmering tensions between white and black residents in Chicago erupted in violence.
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What did “freedom” mean during the American Revolution?
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Texas has long been a place of cross-cultural exchange. How did Texas become Texas?
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In 1911, a factory in New York City burst into flames and 146 workers perished.
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At Virginia’s Fort Monroe, we discover the spot where where slavery began.