Watch video of Journalist Elliot Jaspin, a Pulitzer Prize winner, speaking at Vanderbilt University on Oct. 14 about episodes in America after Reconstruction until the Great Depression where organized groups of white people terrorized, murdered and forced thousands of black Americans to flee their homes. Jaspin is the author of Buried in Bitter Waters: The Hidden History of Racial Cleansing in America.

The lecture was the first in the 2007 Vanderbilt University Holocaust Lecture Series, now in its 30th year.