American RadioWorks documentary: Remembering Jim Crow

President Barack Obama said this week there is no question that race relations have improved in his lifetime, but racism is still deeply embedded in the United States. He said, "the legacy of slavery and Jim Crow casts a long shadow... and that's still part of our DNA that's passed on."

For much of the 20th Century, African Americans in the South were barred from the voting booth, sent to the back of the bus, and walled off from many of the rights they deserved as American citizens. Until well into the 1960s, segregation was legal. The system was called Jim Crow. In this documentary, Americans-- black and white--remember life in the Jim Crow times.

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