Free at last [DVD] : civil rights heroes / Choices ; World Almanac presents ; Bill Brummel Productions for The Learning Channel ; producer and writer, Martin Kent.
Narrator, Steve Harris. Videodisc release of a 1999 documentary series produced for The Learning Channel.
Contents:
pt. 1. Emmett Till ; Medgar Evers -- pt. 2. The Birmingham four ; Schwerner, Chaney, and Goodman -- pt. 3. Viola Liuzzo ; Rev. James Reeb ; Jimmy Lee Jackson ; Vernon Dahmer.
Summary:
"The civil rights movement in the United States is usually thought of in terms of its leadership, but often the catalysts for progress were people who fought from within a larger group or performed individual acts of heroism. Some were victims who just happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. These are some of those stories"--Container.
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