7.2
/10
Narrator is a real person portrayed by Ossie Davis in the TV series American Experience (based on a true story).
In the first episode they appeared in, titled Goin' Back to T-Town (season 5), they were 75 years old.
They appear in 3 episodes out of a total of 387 aired so far
Narrator is also portrayed by Kenneth Branagh, Morgan Freeman, Susan Sarandon, Denzel Washington, Willem Dafoe, Richard Dreyfuss, Robert Duvall, Robert Redford, Kathy Bates and Benjamin Bratt.

Narrator

by Ossie Davis

character

Episodes3

  • 7.6
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    Goin' Back to T-Town

    episode S5.E12 march 1993
    A profile of the Greenwood neighborhood of Tulsa, Oklahoma - once a flourishing but segregated community.
  • 7.6
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    Malcolm X: Make It Plain

    episode S6.E7 january 1994
  • 7.8
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    Goin' Back to T-Town

    episode S33.E101 february 2021
    Goin' Back to T-Town tells the story of Greenwood, an extraordinary Black community in Tulsa, Oklahoma, that prospered during the 1920s and 30s despite rampant and hostile segregation. Torn apart in 1921 by one of the worst racially-motivated massacres in the nation's history, the neighborhood rose from the ashes, and by 1936 boasted the largest concentration of Black-owned businesses in the U.S., known as "Black Wall Street." Ironically, it could not survive the progressive policies of integration and urban renewal of the 1960s. Told through the memories of those who lived through the events, the film is a bittersweet celebration of small-town life and the resilience of a community's spirit.