Meet the influential author and key figure of the Harlem Renaissance. Also a trained anthropologist, Zora Neale Hurston collected folklore throughout the South and Caribbean — reclaiming, honoring and celebrating Black life on its own terms.
This “Portraits in Oversight” video discusses the aftermath of the 1929 stock market crash and the ensuing investigation led by attorney Ferdinand Pecora.
This episode highlights the oversight investigation conducted by Senator Thomas Walsh, whose relentless work exposed bribery and abuse of power by the Harding administration's Secretary of the Interior, Albert Fall and his associates.
This “Portraits in Oversight” video discusses the Ku Klux Klan's reign of terror during Reconstruction and the congressional investigations that exposed their violence.