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Wheeler on America

BBC Two
on BBC Two England

Charles Wheeler looks at the civil rights movement in the third offive examinations of American society. America's Long March. President
Johnson's Voting Rights Act of was the most far-reaching legislation of his term of office. But blacks in the ghettos saw few improvements in their quality of life, leadingto riots, racial tensions, a white backlash and the murderin 1968 of Dr Martin Luther
King. Wheeler examines how those events have shaped politics today and looks at Louis Farrakhan , the radical leader of the Nation of Islam.
Producer David Taylor

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Charles Wheeler
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Dr Martin Luther
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Louis Farrakhan
Producer:
David Taylor
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