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PBS North Carolina Presents

Chairman Jones: An Improbable Leader

James Henry Jones’ fight for equal education transforms the landscape in the State.

Aired 11/29/2016 | Rating NR

PBS North Carolina Presents

Chairman Jones: An Improbable Leader

11/29/2016 | 57m 23sVideo has Closed Captions

James Henry Jones’ fight for equal education transforms the landscape in the State.

Chairman Jones tells the story of the director's father, James H. Jones, a farmer who emerges as a trailblazer during the 1969 school desegregation crisis sparked when Northampton County refuses to implement Brown v Board of Education. After freeing himself from sharecropping in the 1950s, Jones launches a personal campaign to free black children from Jim Crow education.

Aired 11/29/2016 | Rating NR

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PBS North Carolina Presents is a local public television program presented by PBS NC

PBS North Carolina Presents

Chairman Jones: An Improbable Leader

11/29/2016 | 57m 23sVideo has Closed Captions

Chairman Jones tells the story of the director's father, James H. Jones, a farmer who emerges as a trailblazer during the 1969 school desegregation crisis sparked when Northampton County refuses to implement Brown v Board of Education. After freeing himself from sharecropping in the 1950s, Jones launches a personal campaign to free black children from Jim Crow education.

Aired 11/29/2016 | Rating NR

Problems with Closed Captions? Closed Captioning Feedback

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