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Pulitzer Prize-winning author Douglas Blackmon discusses his film "The Harvest," which airs tonight on the PBS series American Experience. Blackmon was a first grader in the fall of 1970 when the U.S. Supreme Court forced the public schools of Mississippi to desegregate. Blackmon and his classmates were the first youngsters to experience desegregated public education in the small community of Leland, Mississippi.