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Premieres Tuesday, Sept. 12, 2023 at 9 p.m. on KPBS TV / PBS App + Encore Wednesday, Sept. 20 at 8 p.m. on KPBS 2. Explore what happened when the small Mississippi town of Leland integrated its public schools in 1970. Told through the remembrances of students, teachers and parents, the film shows how the town - and America - were transformed.

Premieres Monday, Sept. 11, 2023 at 9 p.m. on KPBS TV / PBS App + Encores Wednesday, Sept. 13 at 8 p.m. and Saturday, Sept. 16 at 6 a.m. and Noon on KPBS 2. "The Busing Battleground" viscerally captures the class tensions and racial violence that ensued when Black and white students in Boston were bused for the first time between neighborhoods to comply with a federal desegregation order.

Next week, Doc Martin returns with a new season and American Experience explores what happened when two different cities integrated their public schools in the 70s

A new season of "Fine Cut," special Hispanic Heritage Month programming and more comes to KCET this month!

Two new films from AMERICAN EXPERIENCE that examine the deeply mixed legacy of America’s efforts to racially integrate public schools in the 1970s uncover shocking truths.

American Experience"The Busing Battleground"Premieres Monday, September 11, 2023 at 9 pm on PBS and Streaming on PBS.org Film Tells the Story of the Bitter Struggle to Integrate Boston’s Sch

Premiering in September, the films take very different looks at what has and hasn’t changed in the almost 70 years since Brown v. Board of Education.

Television goes on this fall with some pretense of normalcy. Our critics weigh in on some of the genres that will dominate the fall schedule.

This September, the distinguished, award-winning Public Television series The American Experience is releasing two important documentaries on this country’s uneven attempt to desegregate its schools. Much can be learned from these halting, painful experiments.

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