Rent NPR American Chronicles: Civil Rights

Synopsis

It wasn't that long ago that black citizens had to move to the back of the bus. In this stirring collection, NPR tells stories large and small: of Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King, and the March on Washington; of Pullman porters, an invaluable green book, and women who baked pies to support the Montgomery bus boycott. Personal recollections and historical accounts paint vivid pictures of individuals and events that transformed a nation.

Featuring: Rosa Parks recounts her historic act of defiance on a Montgomery bus in 1955Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall and former San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown on Pullman porters and the black middle classRadio storyteller Jean Shepherd's first-person account of the March on WashingtonHoward University's E. Ethelbert Miller remembers Martin Luther KingWalter Cronkite recalls the story of the slaying of three civil rights workers in 1964Julian Bond looks back on 50 years of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)Noah Adams reflects on the decision to publish photographs of Emmett Till's mutilated bodyHow former Freedom Riders are using their experiences to motivate students todayand much more.

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