Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
The 38-minute film, narrated by Julian Bond and featuring John Lewis, presents a short history of the Civil Rights Movement using historical footage and spoken accounts of participants. Events recounted are the Montgomery bus boycott ; school integration in Little Rock, Arkansas; demonstrations in Birmingham ; and the 1965 Selma to Montgomery ...
The film originated as two sequential projects. Part one, six hours long, was shown on PBS in early 1987 as Eyes on the Prize: America's Civil Rights Years 1954–1965. Eight more hours were broadcast in 1990 as Eyes on the Prize II: America at the Racial Crossroads 1965–1985. In 1992, the documentary was released on home video.
"Television News of the Civil Rights Era 1950-1970" is a digital history project produced by Dr. William Thomas and the Virginia Center for Digital History at the University of Virginia. The project considers the role of Southern television during Virginia's Massive Resistance campaign in opposition to the Brown v.
Historian Jonathan Darman examines deciding to pursue civil rights legislation over objections of fellow Southern Democrats. Lyndon B. Johnson: Moral clarity on civil rights [Video] Skip to main ...
A proposed "Civil Rights Act of 1966" had collapsed completely because of its fair housing provision. [167] Mondale commented that: A lot of civil rights [legislation] was about making the South behave and taking the teeth from George Wallace, [but] this came right to the neighborhoods across the country. This was civil rights getting personal ...
(The Center Square) – Without going into details on who is going to pay for the ideas discussed, the Illinois Senate Human Rights Committee held a hearing Tuesday called “Housing as a Human ...
Television episodes about civil rights movement (1 C, 4 P) Pages in category "Civil rights movement in television" The following 29 pages are in this category, out of 29 total.
Vice President Harris on Thursday unveiled her first presidential campaign video, which focuses on rights and freedom. The video, which is called “We Choose Freedom” and is 79 seconds long ...