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Shots in the Back: Exhuming the 1970 Augusta Riot

By: Georgia Public Broadcasting
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  • "Shots in the Back: Exhuming the 1970 Augusta Riot" tells the story of one of the first major Civil Rights Era riots in the South. The immediate cause of the riot in Augusta, Ga. was the brutal murder of Charles Oatman, an African American teenager held by police in the county jail. During the riot, six Black men were killed by white police officers, all of them shot in the back. In a collaboration, students at the Jessye Norman School of the Arts join GPB in telling this story.
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  • Bonus: Telling The Story_

    Bonus: Telling The Story_
    Oct 19 2020
    Host Sea Stachura and editor Keocia Howard look back on the making of "Shots in the Back: Exhuming the 1970 Augusta Riot."
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    30 mins
  • Episode 6: Was The Augusta Riot Worth It?

    Episode 6: Was The Augusta Riot Worth It?
    Sep 15 2020
    Was the Augusta riot worth it? Fifty years after the uprising, we look at the societal changes that it sparked, and what the Civil Rights Movement looks like today.
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    48 mins
  • Bonus: No Peace, No Justice, 1970

    Bonus: No Peace, No Justice, 1970
    Sep 8 2020
    In 1970, what happened in Augusta was actually part of a larger national story as campuses across the country were shut down due to protests.
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    7 mins
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