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The Strategy: A Short Film from Freedom Riders
In the decades after WWII, civil rights leaders relied on legal and legislative challenges to dismantle segregation. But in the early 1960s, activists impatient for change turned to a new strategy: non-violent direct action.
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Follow LBJ from rural Texas to his ascendancy to the presidency after the assassination of JFK.
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