The Sixties

Season 1, Episode 5: A Long March to Freedom (1960 – 1968)

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Selma, Birmingham, and the March on Washington are reexamined by eyewitnesses to history. Diane Nash, U.S. Rep. John Lewis, U.S. Rep. Eleanor Holmes Norton, Rev. C.T. Vivian, Bob Moses, Diane McWhorter, Taylor Branch, David Garrow, and Isabel Wilkerson give critical context to the lunch counter sit-ins, Freedom Rides, Freedom Summer, integration, and the Children’s Crusade for the moral mission of the Civil Rights Movement.

All Episodes - Season 1

Television Comes of Age (1960 - 1969)
Episode 1
Television Comes of Age (1960 - 1969)
 The World on the Brink (1960 – 1963)
Episode 2
The World on the Brink (1960 – 1963)
 The Assassination of Kennedy (1963 - 1969)
Episode 3
The Assassination of Kennedy (1963 - 1969)
 The War in Vietnam (1961 – 1968)
Episode 4
The War in Vietnam (1961 – 1968)
 A Long March to Freedom (1960 – 1968)
Episode 5
A Long March to Freedom (1960 – 1968)
 The British Invasion (1964 - 1967)
Episode 6
The British Invasion (1964 - 1967)
 The Space Race (1960 – 1969)
Episode 7
The Space Race (1960 – 1969)
 1968 (1968)
Episode 8
1968 (1968)
 The Times, They are A-Changin’ (1960 – 1969)
Episode 9
The Times, They are A-Changin’ (1960 – 1969)
 Sex, Drugs, and Rock N’ Roll (1960 – 1969)
Episode 10
Sex, Drugs, and Rock N’ Roll (1960 – 1969)
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