From Black Power to Black Trauma , Episode 1: "How Did We Get Here?"

Episode 1: "How Did We Get Here?" explores how is it that a people who defeated 100 years of Jim Crow segregation in 10 years are now "traumatized" 50 years later? Norman Kelley presents his arguments that "black trauma" is a mask for victimology; it obscures the reality that blacks had politically demobilized themselves during the post-civil rights era.