NBC's Katie Couric talks with the original Little Rock Nine. In 1957, nine African-American students entered Central High School in Little Rock, AR, hoping to end segregation.
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NBC's Lester Holt discusses the impact of the Supreme Court decision in Brown v. Board of Education on Central High School in Little Rock, AR. The Little Rock Nine were the first black students to attend the all-white school.
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This forum discussion focuses on civil rights though the eyes of those on the front lines of the movement. It features Theodore Sorensen, Special Counsel to President Kennedy; Harris Wofford, President Kennedy's chairman for the Subcabinet Group of Civil Rights; Taylor Branch, Pulitzer-Prize-winning author of Pillar of Fire; and Robert Moses, pivotal organizer for the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee and director of its Mississippi project in the early 1960s. This session takes an in-depth look at the years 19601963 when Martin Luther King, Jr. engaged President John F. Kennedy and Attorney General Robert Kennedy in the battle to extend civil rights to all.
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Photographer Eddie Adams took pictures of hundreds of celebrities and politicians, but some of his most searing portraits come from his work during the Vietnam War—including a Pulitzer-Prize-winning photograph of a Vietnamese general in Saigon executing a Viet Cong suspect. This presentation looks at Adams's career and his thoughts on his work during the war.
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This 2004 NBC documentary recounts the groundbreaking journey of the Freedom Riders from Washington, DC, to Montgomery, AL, in 1961.
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NBC's Rehema Ellis interviews Congressman John Lewis, Selma Mayor Joe Smitherman, and others about the day known as "Bloody Sunday," when brutal police attacks on civil rights marchers in Selma, AL, shocked the nation.
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NBC Narrator Rosalind Jordan looks back at the story of Emmett Till, who was 14 when he left Chicago to visit his family in the segregated South. Two white men accused Till of making a pass at Bryant's wife, Carolyn, and Till was brutally murdered.
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This iCue Mini-Documentary describes how temporary workers from Mexico filled huge labor shortages created by World War II and became part of the continuing debate about immigration.
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Professor Gerald L. Early discusses cultural observations on Jackie Robinson, a staunch civil rights activist, successful businessman, and the first African-American to play in Major League Baseball. Early focuses on the significance of sports as a public arena and form of performance and on African-American perception of baseball.
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This NBC documentary charts the lengthy struggle for school desegregation in America, from the Brown v. Board of Education decision in 1954 to the battle to integrate the University of Alabama in 1963.
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