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By February of 1960, Terry Sanford had been working for the
better part of a decade to win the governorship of North Carolina,
a job he had dreamt of most of his adult life. But when four young
black men sat down at a Woolworth counter in the city of Greensboro
in his home state and demanded to be served, their actions put him
in the most excruciating dilemma. To support them would be to
commit political suicide; to condemn them would be to violate his
most basic principles; to remain silent was impossible. TERRY
SANFORD AND THE NEW SOUTH is the story of a progressive Southern
governor and his bare-knuckle politics during segregation's reign.
The program charts the emergence of this back-slapping,
cigar-smoking white politician as he pushed his vision for a new
South and became a forceful agent of racial change. The program
features interviews with vice presidential candidate John Edwards,
former North Carolina Governor Jim Hunt, civil rights leader Vernon
Jordan and wife Margaret Rose Sanford.
Monday, April 2, 2007, 10:00-11:00 p.m. ET