Chapter 1 | Casa Susanna
Season 35
Episode 6
About the Episode
Casa Susanna was a refuge for transgender women and cross-dressing men in the 1950s-60s.
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Extras
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Surviving the Dust Bowl: Trailer
The determined people who clung to their homes and way of life enduring drought and dust.0:30 -
Trailer | The Murder of Emmett Till
Emmett Till's murder and the acquittal of his killers mobilized the Civil Rights Movement.0:30 -
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Trailer | Fatal Flood
In 1927, the Mississippi River flooded from New Orleans, leaving a million homeless.0:30 -
Nixon and Abusing Power: The "Saturday Night Massacre"
Nixon fired special Watergate prosecutor Archibald Cox in "The Saturday Night Massacre."2:41 -
Attack at Harpers Ferry
John Brown seizes a federal armory at Harpers Ferry, VA, but fails to incite revolution.2:08 -
John Brown Gathers His Arsenal
John Brown put little stock in peaceful abolition. In 1855 he left New York for Kansas.2:02 -
Deleted Scene on Dolley's Squeezes
A scene deleted from the film about Dolley Madison's "squeezes".3:14 -
San Francisco’s Bubonic Plague Cover-up
Word spreads of a bubonic plague outbreak in San Francisco’s Chinatown.3:58 -
Ng Poon Chew
Ng Poon Chew was a writer, a publisher and an advocate for Chinese American civil rights.0:44
