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Bearing the cross

Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference
1999
An account of the life of civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. based on personal interviews, his personal papers, and FBI documents.

Have no fear

the Charles Evers story
1997

An easy burden

the civil rights movement and the transformation of America
1996

The Rosa Parks story

2002
Dramatizes Rosa Parks' famous refusal to move out of her seat on a segregated bus in 1955 as well as aspects of her early life, her involvement with the NAACP, and the aftermath of that act of resistance.

A history of the civil rights movement

1994
Documents the history of the civil rights movement in the U.S., highlighting significant events including Jesse Jackson's presidential bid, the march on Washington, D.C., Jim Crow laws, and others.

Selma, Lord, Selma

1999
Sheyann, an eleven-year-old Alabama schoolgirl, is inspired by a speech of Martin Luther King, Jr. and becomes a devout follower in the Civil rights movement.

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