Voices of civil rights [DVD video]

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Publication Date:

2006

Publication Information:

[Burlington, VT] : A&E Home Video ; New York : Distributed by New Video, c2006.

Physical Description:

2 videodiscs (ca. 243 min.) : sd., col. and b&w ; 4 3/4 in.

ISBN:

9780767076685

9780767076692

9780767076708

Abstract:

From the fearless resolve of a single woman to the remarkable voice of thousands marching, this History Channel special offers an overview of one of America's great defining periods. A compilation of materials on the civil rights movement, from personal narratives of life in the period, to insights into the Mississippi Sovereignty Commission, to the 1965 march on Montgomery, along with biographies of two of the leaders of the movement.

General Note:

Title from disc surface.

Originally broadcast on several History Channel and other television channels, including Save our history, History undercover, History uncovered, Reputations (BBC), and Biography (A&E).

Contents:

V. 1. Voices of civil rights ; Mississippi State secrets ; Crossing the bridge -- v. 2. Martin Luther King, Jr. : the man and the dream ; Thurgood Marshall : justice for all.

Personal Subject:

King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968.

Marshall, Thurgood, 1908-1993.

Corporate Subject:

Mississippi Sovereignty Commission.

Subject Term:

Civil rights movements -- United States -- Personal narratives.

Civil rights movements -- United States -- Biography.

Oral history.

Race discrimination -- United States.

African American civil rights workers.

Selma-Montgomery Rights March, 1965.