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  • Reading Rainbow Follow the Drinking Gourd (Season 10, Episode 1)
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    TV Episode | 27 min | Animation, Comedy, Drama

Reading Rainbow

Follow the Drinking Gourd (Season 10, Episode 1)
TV-Y
TV Episode | 27 min | Animation, Comedy, Drama
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 ...See moreLeVar 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. See less
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Producer
Jill Gluckson
Composer
Stephen Horelick
Casting Director
Laura Frame Sullivan
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Status
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Updated Oct 18, 1993
Release date
Oct 18, 1993 (United States)
Awards
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Nominated for 2 Primetime Emmy Awards. Another 38 wins & 90 nominations

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LeVar Burton
Self - Host Self - Host   See fewer
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Keith David
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Robert M. Watson
African-American Interpreter (as Robert M. Watson Jr.) African-American Interpreter (as Robert M. Watson Jr.)   See fewer
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