WGBH Educational Foundation.
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Explores the dramatic event that launched a worldwide rights movement. When police raided a Mafia-run gay bar in Greenwich Village, the Stonewall Inn on June 28, 1969, gay men and women did something they had not done before: they fought back. As the streets of New York erupted into violent protests and street demonstrations, the collective anger announced that the gay rights movement had arrived.
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English
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Every year, hundreds of thousands of teenagers in the United States quit high school, an epidemic so out of control that nodoby knows the exact number. What is clear is that massive dropout rates cripple individual career prospects and cloud the country's future. At Houston's Sharpstown High a high-stakes experiment is taking place to rescue students from the edge. A troubling and inspiring journey through the maze of an inner city high school, Dropout...