Beyond the Road to Freedom
The modern civil rights movement in the United States had its earliest roots in the Niagara region of New York State. In 1901 the Pan American Exposition in Buffalo offered both hope and despair for an aspiring African American community in the country's eighth largest city at the time. "Beyond the Road to Freedom," a New York Emmy Award winning documentary, revisits this history and also takes the viewer on the freedom trails through Western New York. It shows how the Buffalo Niagara region is bringing history alive through reenactments at authentic sites dating back to the days of abolitionism. Reported by Rich Newberg and Mylous Hairston. Photographed and edited by Tom Vetter and Don Dawkins.
Archives & Special Collections Department, E. H. Butler Library
Monroe Fordham Regional History Center
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"Beyond the Road to Freedom." WIVB-TV Black History Specials. Monroe Fordham Regional History Center. Archives & Special Collections Department, E. H. Butler Library, SUNY Buffalo State. https://digitalcommons.buffalostate.edu/wivb-specials/2