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This World - Deep South Divide

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Some 18 months ago in the mixed race town of Jena, Louisiana, two nooses were strung up on a schoolyard tree – a deliberate act by three white students against their fellow black colleagues. Within a year the racist sparks had started the flames of a new confrontation in America’s Deep South. Reporter Tom Mangold returns to the town to investigate what happened.