Story Of 1875, The
Broadcast: August 29, 1948
Starring:
Maurice Copeland,
Fred Pinkard,
Janice Kingslow,
Tony Parrish,
Arthur Peterson ,
Jonathan Hole,
Larry Alexander,
Oscar Brown Jr,
Louise Pruitt,
Hugh Downs,
Elwyn Owen,
Greg Pascal,
Bobby Christian,
Charles Mountain,
Horace Games
Added: Oct 16 2015
Today's story is about the reconstruction leader, Charles Caldwell. Born to slave parents circa 1932, Charles Caldwell served as a slave blacksmith until the post civil war era, when he took the reading and writing skills he had learned whilst a slave, participating in the Mississippi Constitutional Convention in 1868, championing political rights and integrated schools.