This iCue Mini-Documentary describes how, in 1836, during the Texan struggle for independence from Mexico, a small group of Texan revolutionaries fought a much-larger army of Mexican soldiers at the Battle of the Alamo.
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This iCue Mini-Documentary describes a rebellion against the landed class of Virginia, led by Nathanial Bacon, a poor farmer. It came to be known as Bacon's Rebellion.
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Professors Gabor Boritt and Matthew Pinsker examine the War President Abraham Lincoln and the transformation of the United States during and after the Civil War. The seminar focuses on the central role of Gettysburg. Lecture topics include battlefields and soldiers; slavery and race; and Lincoln's transition to a resolute war leader.
This 2004 NBC documentary recounts the groundbreaking journey of the Freedom Riders from Washington, DC, to Montgomery, AL, in 1961.
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Nearly 40 years after the March on Selma, Congressman John Lewis and other witnesses tell the story of the fight for African American voting rights in the 1960s.
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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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Katie Couric looks back at the day that the 16th Street Baptist Church was bombed in Birmingham, AL. After the bodies of four girls are found buried in the rubble, the crime becomes a turning point in the struggle for civil rights.
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This iCue Mini-Documentary introduces Malcolm X and his rejection of Martin Luther King's commitment to nonviolence. He believed African Americans had to separate themselves from white society to gain civil rights.
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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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This iCue Mini-Documentary looks at the lesser-known figures of the Civil Rights Movement. Though Martin Luther King, Jr. and Malcolm X are the best-known names in the Civil Rights Movement, there were many more largely unknown people vital to the movement.
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