Steve Cohen: “What would you do about somebody that is born in the South, an…”

On the recordJuly 5, 2016

What would you do about somebody that is born in the South, an African-American in 1940?

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Cohen questions the opportunities for African-Americans born in the South during Jim Crow.

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