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Deep South Divide
Tom Mangold returns to the school in Jena, Louisiana to investigate the events that triggered the biggest black civil rights march since the 60s last year.
Some 18 months ago in the mixed race town of Jena, Louisiana, two nooses were strung up on a schoolyard tree – a deliberate act by three white students against their fellow black colleagues. Within a year the racist sparks had started the flames of a new confrontation in America’s Deep South. Reporter Tom Mangold returns to the town to investigate what happened.
Last on
Wed 5 Mar 200819:00
BBC Two Scotland
