The definitive story of the Civil Rights era from the point of view of the ordinary men and women whose extraordinary actions launched a movement that changed the fabric of American life, and embodied a struggle whose reverberation continue to be felt today.
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Air Date: 1987-01-21
Individual acts of courage inspire black Southerners to fight for their rights: Mose Wright testifies against the whi...
Air Date: 1987-01-28
States' rights loyalists and federal authorities collide in the 1957 battle to integrate Little Rock's Central High S...
Air Date: 1987-02-04
Black college students take a leadership role in the civil rights movement as lunch counter sit-ins spread across the...
Air Date: 1987-02-11
The civil rights movement discovers the power of mass demonstrations as the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. emerges as i...
Air Date: 1987-02-18
Mississippi's grass-roots civil rights movement becomes an American concern when college students travel south to hel...
Air Date: 1987-02-25
A decade of lessons is applied in the climactic and bloody march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama. A major victory i...