21 Season
155 Episode
Reading Rainbow - Season 11 Episode 6 Follow the Drinking Gourd
Take a look, it’s in a book, a Reading Rainbow!
LeVar reflects on a time when Africans were brought to America as slaves. He talks about how African-Americans risked their lives for freedom, and discusses how the music from slavery times effected the African culture. Keith David reads the featured story, which explains that the African-American folk song, "Follow the Drinking Gourd," was in fact a coded message to slaves giving them instructions on how to take the Underground Railroad north to states that abolished slavery.
- Year: 2006
- Country: United States of America
- Genre: Kids
- Studio: PBS
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- Cast: LeVar Burton