Eyewitnesses to history reflect on Selma, Birmingham, and the March on Washington. Diane Nash, U.S. Rep. John Lewis, U.S. Rep. Eleanor Holmes Norton, Rev. C.T. Vivian, Bob Moses, Diane McWhorter, Taylor Branch, David Garrow, and Isabel Wilkerson provide essential insights into the lunch counter sit-ins, Freedom Rides, Freedom Summer, integration efforts, and the Children’s Crusade, highlighting the moral imperatives that drove the Civil Rights Movement.
Show
The Sixties
Episode
S01E05
Air Date
Jun 26, 2014
Season 1 Episodes
S01E01
Television Comes of Age (1960 - 1969)
S01E02
The World on the Brink (1960 – 1963)
S01E03
The Assassination of Kennedy (1963 - 1969)
S01E04
The War in Vietnam (1961 – 1968)
S01E05
A Long March to Freedom (1960 – 1968)
S01E06
The British Invasion (1964 - 1967)
S01E07
The Space Race (1960 – 1969)
S01E08
1968 (1968)
S01E09
The Times, They are A-Changin’ (1960 – 1969)
S01E10
Sex, Drugs, and Rock N’ Roll (1960 – 1969)