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March 05, 2025

How Underground Schools Across the South Built the Civil Rights Movement

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Rep. Seth Moulton (D-MA) reacts to Donald Trump’s address to a joint session of Congress. Fmr. Executive Editor of The Washington Post Marty Baron discusses the Trump administration’s strict rules for journalists and changes within the media. Elaine Weiss tells the story of citizenship schools that secretly taught Black adults in the South during the Jim Crow era in her book “Spell Freedom.”

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