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Benjamin Chavis

Duration: 30 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC News EuropeLatest broadcast: on BBC News Latin America

Sarah Montague speaks to controversial American civil rights leader, Benjamin Chavis. Wrongfully convicted and jailed for arson in the 1970s as part of the 'Wilmington Ten', it was more than three decades before he and his fellow activists received a 'pardon of innocence'. Five decades after Martin Luther King Junior's 'I Have a Dream' speech, how much have things really changed for African Americans? Show less

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Interviewer:
Sarah Montague
Interviewed Guest:
Benjamin Chavis

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