Films for the Humanities and Sciences - The Fateful Decade: From Little Rock to the Civil Rights Bill

The Fateful Decade: From Little Rock to the Civil Rights Bill

First there was the law, and then there was enforcement of the law. This program begins at Little Rock’s Central High School, when soldiers had to provide safety for black children exercising their legal right to go to school. Martin Luther King, Jr., already appears in 1958 at a meeting of black leaders with President Eisenhower. The civil rights movement accelerated: marches, clashes with the police and the jailing of demonstrators, the murder of Medgar Evers, the bombing of the Baptist church in Birmingham, sit-ins and protests, the Montgomery march, the Mississippi Freedom march, Martin Luther King, Jr.’s famous "I Have a Dream" and "I Have Been to the Mountaintop" speeches, his funeral, and President Johnson’s signing of the Civil Rights Bill of 1968. (27 minutes)

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Item#: BVL2609
Copyright date: ©1990
VHS ISBN 978-1-56950-212-9
DVD ISBN 978-1-60467-080-6


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