A rich, oral-based cultural history, documenting and debating U.S. race relations from Emancipation to the Civil Rights Movement, and exploring how that history continues to effect us. With numerous eyewitness accounts, rare period music recordings, and narrative contributions by James Earl Jones and Studs Terkel.

Transom.org is the public radio website dedicated to helping people tell their own stories. Transom offers the tools, the techniques and the encouragement to get those stories on the air and help public radio fulfill its mission. From time to time Transom creates special hours for broadcast. These are generally stories we're not hearing on traditional broadcast outlets and often the voices of those we don't hear from at all.