civil rights movements

The story of Coretta Scott King covering her childhood and her help in leading the civil rights movement.

Presents Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s speech, explaining its meaning and significance throughout history.

Autobiography of Leon Water Tillage who was a sharecropper in North Carolina in the 1940s.

Presents a brief biography of Coretta Scott King, discussing her early life, her marriage to Martin Luther King, Jr., and her accomplishments in the struggle to achieve civil rights for African-Americans.

Describes the life of the great civil rights leader.

Explores the experience of African-Americans in the United States from 1948 through 1956, a time that encompassed the integration of the military and the beginnings of the civil rights movement.

Surveys the history of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and its achievements in the civil rights movement.

Examines literary and political background of Martin Luther King, Jr.'s renowned "I have a dream" speech, and also discusses historical and political uses of the speech since its original delivery on August 28, 1963.

Examines the civil rights movement of the twentieth century, and discusses Jim Crow laws and segregation, desegregation of the schools, sit-in's and freedom rides, the march on Washington, and more.