Episode 4. Ms. Lorraine Washington: Tears Like Rain. Lorraine Washington suffered through the worst forms of segregation, intimidation, and voting prohibitions during the Jim Crow era. However, the promises [and failures] of job programs during the War on Poverty were equally frustrating. Graduation from such a program -- a nursing school – apparently only qualified her for janitorial work at a local hospital.

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