PBS special

[url=http://www.slaverybyanothername.com/pbs-film/]PBS Film | Slavery By Another Name[/url]Watch the broadcast of the new documentary film, Slavery by Another Name, on all PBS stations, Feb. 13, at 9 p.m. Eastern, 8 p.m., Central. [URL="http://www.pbs.org/tpt/slavery-by-another-name/watch/"]Watch the trailer.[/URL] Directed by Sam Pollard, produced by Catherine Allan and Douglas Blackmon, written by Sheila Curran Bernard, the tpt National Productions project is based on the 2009 Pulitzer Prize-winning book by Blackmon. Slavery by Another Name challenges one of our countrys most cherished assumptions: the belief that slavery ended with Abraham LincolnҒs Emancipation Proclamation of 1863. The documentary recounts how in the years following the Civil War, insidious new forms of forced labor emerged in the American South, keeping hundreds of thousands of African Americans in bondage, trapping them in a brutal system that would persist until the onset of World War II. Based on Blackmons research, Slavery by Another Name eight decades, from 1865 to 1945, revealing the interlocking forces in both the South and the North that enabled this ғneoslavery to begin and persist. Using archival photographs and dramatic re-enactments filmed on location in Alabama and Georgia, it tells the forgotten stories of both victims and perpetrators of neoslavery and includes interviews with their descendants living today. The program also features interviews with Douglas Blackmon and with leading scholars of this period. Major funding for Slavery by Another Name is provided by the National Endowment for the Humanities, W.K. Kellogg Foundation, The Coca-Cola Company and the CPB/PBS Diversity and Innovation Fund. PBS broadcast is targeted for early 2012. The project includes: [LIST][*]A 90-minute national PBS prime-time television documentary, produced and directed by noted filmmaker Sam Pollard (Eyes on the Prize, The Blues, When the Levees Broke) to be broadcast nationwide in the fall of 2012.[*]An online interactive site on pbs.org that will be not only a destination for sharing stories gathered in partnership with the oral history organization, StoryCorps, but also the preeminent resource online for people wanting to learn more about this little-known history.[*]Educational outreach, in conjunction with outreach specialists 2MPower Media and content experts at The Birmingham Civil Rights Institute, providing a standards-based curriculum for high school educators and students nationwide, along with a college unit on the economics of slavery and a ViewerԒs Guide for use by families and community groups.[/LIST]