America's Civil Rights Years 1954–1965 (1987)

Awakenings, 1954-1956
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January 21, 1987 • 1h

Individual acts of courage inspire black Southerners to fight for their rights: Mose Wright testifies against the white men who mu...Read more

Fighting Back, 1957-1962
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January 28, 1987 • 1h

States' rights loyalists and federal authorities collide in the 1957 battle to integrate Little Rock's Central High School, and ag...Read more

Ain't Scared of Your Jails, 1960-1961
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February 4, 1987 • 1h

Black college students take a leadership role in the civil rights movement as lunch counter sit-ins spread across the South. "Free...Read more

No Easy Walk, 1962-1966
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February 11, 1987 • 1h

The civil rights movement discovers the power of mass demonstrations as the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. emerges as its most visib...Read more

Mississippi, Is This America, 1962-1964
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February 18, 1987 • 1h

Mississippi's grass-roots civil rights movement becomes an American concern when college students travel south to help register bl...Read more

Bridge to Freedom, 1965
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February 25, 1987 • 1h

A decade of lessons is applied in the climactic and bloody march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama. A major victory is won when th...Read more