Civil Rights: The Long Road to Equality

This two-part documentary examines the history of the American Civil Rights Movement and explores discrimination, bias, and racism through the interviews, archival footage and photographs, and on-camera discussions with contemporary middle and high school students.
Part One, The Civil Rights Movement in the United States: The Role of Youth in the Struggle, highlights the courage and dedicated commitment of the many students, some as young as eight years old, who actively participated in protests, marches, and the integration of schools, In this program, students are introduced to the topics of de jure and de facto segregation, nonviolent resistance and Civil disobedience. The important Supreme Court cases of Plessy vs. Ferguson and Brown vs. Board of Education are reviewed. The role of Dr. Martine Luther King, Jr., in leading and defining the struggle for Civil Rights is examined. And seminal Civil Rights events in Topeka, Little Rock, Greensboro, Birmingham, and Selma are documented.
In Part Two, Overcoming Racism, students speak candidly of their experiences and views of bias, prejudice, discrimination, and racism. Through interviews and discussions led by internationally acclaimed diversity specialists Drs. Laura Souder and Samuel Betances, young people offer their insights and suggestions for attaining the open and equitable society envisioned, but not yet fully realized, more than thirty years after the start of the Civil Rights Movement. - United Streaming