Tim Reid's Legacy Documentary Series

Elizabeth Keckly, born enslaved in Virginia in 1818, developed a skill as a seamstress and dressmaker that allowed her to buy her freedom; this led her to Lincoln's White House and the attention of First Lady Mary Todd Lincoln.

Ten years after Cuba gained its independence, the racial harmony that produced this hemisphere's first fully integrated army was shattered; the formation of The First Independent Black Political Party in the Americas.

Born in 1849, Thomas Greene Bethune was the son of field slaves, but over the course of a 50 year career, his dazzling skills at the piano enthralled audiences worldwide.