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Bob Moses announces the 1964 project known as Freedom Summer in Mississippi.
0:52
Victoria Gray Adams explains the goals of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party.
1:03
CORE's James Farmer explains the procedures for the Freedom Riders through the South.
1:39
John Lewis speaks about what the Freedom Riders experienced while traveling in Alabama.
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Montgomery, AL's Black residents prep for the 1955 bus boycott after Rosa Park's arrest.
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Activist Diane Nash recounts a day during the lunch counter sit-ins in Nashville.
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An excerpt of John Lewis's speech at the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom in 1963.
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The Kerner Commission finds "two societies, one black, one white, separate and unequal."
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After a decade-long cry for justice, a new sound is heard in the movement: call for power.
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Martin Luther King, Jr. stakes out new ground for himself and the Civil Rights Movement.
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The call for Black Power takes various forms across communities in Black America.
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Power and powerlessness in the cities of Miami and Chicago.