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For CBS' Assignment America series Steve Hartman visited the students of Simsbury High School along Connecticut's onetime Tobacco Road. They have made A Man Who Changed the World, a documentary about the teenage students from Morehouse College who used to be summertime migrant workers in the tobacco fields. They included a young MLK, who recalled returning home to Atlanta: "It was a bitter feeling going back to segregation. It was hard to understand why I could ride wherever I pleased on the train from New York to Washington--and then had to change to a Jim Crow car at the nation's capital."
ABC's Steve Osunsami accompanied public broadcasting journalist Charlayne Hunter-Gault back to her alma mater in Athens Ga, to mark the 50th anniversary of her matriculation at the University of Georgia, its first black student. "She still remembers the smallest details: how cold it was; how cold they were; the smell of tear gas; and the brick that came crashing through her window." The university still has a statewide reputation as an unwelcoming place for black students, Osunsami pointed out. Hunter-Gault hopes they attend anyway.
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