3 videodiscs (360 minutes) :sound, colour and black and white ;4 3/4 inches.
Originally broadcast in 1986 as a special presentation of The American experience.
Special feature: Disc 1. Interview with Henry Hampton.
Title from container.
Disc 1.Awakenings, 1954-1956 --Fighting back, 1957-1962.
Disc 2.Ain't scared of your jails, 1960-1961 --No easy walk, 1961-1963.
Disc 3.Mississippi : Is this America? 1962-1964 --Bridge to freedom, 1965.
Associate producers, Llewellyn M. Smith, Prudence Arndt ; edited by Daniel Eisenberg, Jeanne Jordan, Charles Scott ; senior researcher, Laurie Kahn-Leavitt ; camera, Jon Else ... [and others] ; academic advisors, Wiley Branton, Clayborne Carson, John Dittmer, Tony Freyer, David Garrow, Paul Gaston, Vincent Harding, Darlene Clark Hine, Steve Lawson, Genna Rae McNeil, Aldon Morris, J. Mills Thornton, Howard Zinn ; theme music produced, arranged and performed by Bernice Johnson Reagan ; series title animation, Colossal Pictures.
Narrated by Julian Bond.
The definitive story of the Civil Rights era from the point of view of the ordinary men and women whose extraordinary actions launched a movement that changed the fabric of American life, and embodied a struggle whose reverberations are felt today.
E.
Closed-captioned for the hearing impared.
DVD ; NTSC, region 1; full screen presentation ; stereophonic.
For private home use only.
Audio track in English, captions in English.
1.Civil rights movements--United States--20th century--Personal narratives.2.Civil rights demonstrations--United States--History--20th century.3.Civil rights movements--United States--History--20th century.4.Race relations--United States--History--20th century.5.Racism--United States--History--20th century.Dynamic Details