In the Shadow of the Capitol

Jan 31, 1983 on PBS at 9:00 PM

Summary

Frontline correspondent Charles Cobb journeys to a Washington, DC that tourists rarely see. The nation's capital, seventy-five percent black, faces widespread poverty, yet it is run by some of the civil-rights movement's most effective and militant o... (more)rganizers, including Mayor Marion Barry.

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