The History of White People in America
How America Made Skin Color Power
By Ed Bell, Clementine Briand, Pierce Freelon, Jonathan Halperin, Aaron Keane and Drew Takahashi
Season 01
Episode 3
How skin became color, color became race and race became power as told by President Thomas Jefferson, Sally Hemings, and one of their six children, Eston Hemings.
READ ON: WGBH's Stacy Buchanan talks with director/musician Pierce Freelon about the series and the experience of working with his mother, jazz singer Nnenna Freelon, on the project.
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