Word: pbs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...AMERICAN EXPERIENCE (PBS, Tuesdays, 9 p.m. on most stations). What's this? A documentary series featuring real-life news footage rather than actors re- creating it? That is an admirably quaint notion that has spawned some fascinating programs. Former Harlem Congressman Adam Clayton Powell is profiled this week...
MOYERS: THE PUBLIC MIND (PBS, debuting Nov. 8, 9 p.m. on most stations). Public TV's resident big-think man is back with a four-part series on the role of image in modern life, especially as revealed through the media...
...TOWN (PBS, Nov. 3, 9 p.m. on most stations). Last season's acclaimed Broadway revival of the Thornton Wilder classic is presented on Great Performances...
When she flew south to Montgomery, the "cradle of the Confederacy," in May 1988, Lin was excited but apprehensive. The material she had been sent from the law center included videotapes of the PBS series Eyes on the Prize, the book that complemented it and a short documentary on the Ku Klux Klan, one of the groups whose activities the SPLC monitors. Before receiving all this, Lin knew very little about the civil rights movement. She wasn't even born when Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her seat on a Montgomery bus in 1955, the arrest...
...Evening With Champions is the longestcontinuous event the Jimmy Fund has. It is [our]most visible event. It is nationwide: PBS isairing it. This helps extend the Jimmy Fund beyondthe New England boundary," said Mark T. Cummings,the Jimmy Fund's director of operations...