Great Ambitions covers the time from the 'Separate But Equal' Doctrine to the Birth of the NAACP. It chronicles one of black America's most violent and contradictory eras. For African Americans, stalked by fear, battered by injustice and cruelty, the years from 1896 to 1909 were dark and bloody times. But these years also flashed with courage, hope, and dreams that refused to die.
