South: the Home Place. Today, black Americans are returning to the very Southern cities from which they fled during the days of racial violence and legal segregation. In this final episode, Henry Louis Gates asks how much has the South really changed? Exploring the legacy of Dr Martin Luther King he begins his journey in Washington DC, at the site of Dr King's "I Have a Dream" speech.
There he meets actor Morgan Freeman who explains why he has moved back to the South. Gates travels to some of the great battlegrounds of the civil rights era: Memphis, Birmingham and Atlanta, where he meets the poet Maya Angelou. But he finds instead of integrating with whites, African-Americans are opting to live among their own.
Director Daniel Percival ; Series producer Simon Chinn