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FRONTLINE; Black America's War
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- Series
- FRONTLINE
- Program
- Black America's War
- Program Number
914
- Series Description
FRONTLINE is investigative journalism that questions, explains and changes our world. Since 1983, FRONTLINE has served as PBS's flagship public affairs series. Hailed upon its television broadcast debut as "the last best hope for broadcast documentaries," FRONTLINE's stature is reaffirmed each week through incisive documentaries covering the scope and complexity of the human experience.
- Program Description
Nearly 30% of all US soldiers in the Gulf War were Black Americans. But blacks were much more skeptical than whites about the decision to go to war. Harvard Law professor Charles Ogletree leads a FRONTLINE town meeting at an inner-city church in Philadelphia that explores the source of black attitudes and the impact of the war on the lives of Black Americans. Panelists include Lieutenant General Frank Petersen (first black Marine General); Hodding Carter; author and professor Roger Wilkins; Washington Post writer Juan Williams; Major Elwood Driver (retired Army Air Corps, member of all-black WWII "Tuskegee Airmen").
- Asset Type
Broadcast program
- Media Type
Video
- Genres
- Documentary
- Citation
- Chicago: “FRONTLINE; Black America's War,” GBH Archives, accessed April 25, 2024, http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/V_38D0C77399F14B39B51CB5A5A33997BA.
- MLA: “FRONTLINE; Black America's War.” GBH Archives. Web. April 25, 2024. <http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/V_38D0C77399F14B39B51CB5A5A33997BA>.
- APA: FRONTLINE; Black America's War. Boston, MA: GBH Archives. Retrieved from http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/V_38D0C77399F14B39B51CB5A5A33997BA