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Unfinished: Deep South — S1 E10 The Things We Haven’t Seen

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The conclusion. Who lynched Isadore Banks? How does his story echo through the anger and activism of our current moment?

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A former detective offers us some cold case advice, and we decide to go full frontal on the town of

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Isadore wasn’t the only victim of racial violence in Crittenden County. We track down a woman whose faded childhood memories

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The investigation takes a turn when we get the name of a new suspect — and learn he may have

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Tracing back Isadore’s family helps understand his wealth. Isadore wasn’t an anomaly—many African Americans in the south had land, built

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A $7 million dollar fortune. A white supremacist sheriff. And a 66-year old mystery: what happened to Isadore Banks’ land

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For most of his life Isadore Banks found ways to survive—and thrive—in the violently anti-black South. He became one of