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Joel Bernstein

Joel Bernstein is a contributing producer at Retro Report. Joel was an award-winning producer at CBS News, where he worked at 60 Minutes, CBS Evening News and CBS Reports. Joel was a writer-producer for Walter Cronkite and Dan Rather, as well as Bureau Chief in Tel Aviv and Paris. He is currently writing a novel.

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How Geography Drove MLK's Fight for a Ferry in Alabama

Weeks before Selma’s Bloody Sunday in 1965, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. urged residents of Gee’s Bend, Ala., to vote, and fed a continuing fight over a small ferry that would last for decades.

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