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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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 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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This iCue Mini-Documentary describes how, in the 1880s, black farmers suffered the most in the economic downturn and organized themselves into the Colored Farmers' Alliance.
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This iCue Mini-Documentary describes how, after the Emancipation Proclamation, blacks filled local and national offices, but white southerners were determined to pass new state laws to curtail this progress.
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The American South plays a central role in American history, from the first permanent English colony through the election of 2008. This course will focus on key episodes when Southern history and the history of the nation intersected at particularly important points: the emergence and spread of slavery, the founding, the Civil War, the creation of segregation, and the civil rights struggle. The course will be taught in Richmond, Virginia, a city rich in museums and historic sites that the seminar will use to explore the subjects addressed in the seminar.
This iCue Mini-Documentary describes the two groups which African Americans were divided into at the beginning of the 20th century: those willing to work within the system for advancement and those willing to fight the system for better treatment.
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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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Ernest Green was the first black student to graduate from Central High School in Little Rock, AR. In this NBC News segment, Green looks back at the first days of desegregation and his experiences going to Central High.
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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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