![]() #2 - Part 3 Season 1 - Episode 3 - Aired However when they marry, he is expelled from his family and their presence in town raises the ire of the townspeople. The white son of a local attorney and adviser to the railroad eschews his father's profession in favor of poetry and falls in love with a local college-educated black school teacher brought to the town by Tom to open a colored school. Meanwhile Tom's oldest daughter takes a liking for and wants to marry a young mulatto man, much to Tom's disapproval. George's son Tom Harvey has been asked to travel to Memphis to meet with members of the Colored Republican Party Club, a group of local black politicians who are trying to come up with a new election strategy in light of the changing times. The year is 1882 and the era of Reconstruction of the south and substantial progress for the newly-freed slaves, is coming to an end with the implementation of Jim Crow laws throughout the state. ![]() ![]() It has now been 12 years since Chicken George and his family left their plantation in Virginia and arrived in Henning, Tennessee. #1 - Part 1 Season 1 - Episode 1 - Aired ![]()
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