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... "BE SOMEBODY" Civil Rights footage, MLK speech, marches, demonstrations, walks, KKK, registering to vote date? ...

... iew of the behind-the-scenes workings of the LBJ administration on such historic events as Vietnam, civil rights demonstrations, and the controversial 1964 Democratic Convention. One episode focuses on calls with Hubert Humphrey ...

... on Attorney General Robert Kennedy, with whom LBJ put aside differences to work for approval of the Civil Rights Bill in 1964.

''The scripts we write for the episodes provide context for the calls, such a ...

... iew of the behind-the-scenes workings of the LBJ administration on such historic events as Vietnam, civil rights demonstrations, and the controversial 1964 Democratic Convention. One episode focuses on calls with Hubert Humphrey ...

... on Attorney General Robert Kennedy, with whom LBJ put aside differences to work for approval of the Civil Rights Bill in 1964.

''The scripts we write for the episodes provide context for the calls, such a ...

... Freeman, Agriculture Secretary; Allen Ellender, Democratic Senator of Louisiana; Clarence Mitchell, Civil Rights activist; Jim Eastland, Democratic Senator of Mississippi. 

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... ll #3667 (1964-06-09 / 7:03 PM). Persons: Hubert Humphrey; Lee White, White House counsel for civil rights; Sargent Shriver, Poverty Program director; Pat McNamara, Democratic Senator of Michigan; Olin Johns ...

... iew of the behind-the-scenes workings of the LBJ administration on such historic events as Vietnam, civil rights demonstrations, and the controversial 1964 Democratic Convention. One episode focuses on calls with Hubert Humphrey ...

... on Attorney General Robert Kennedy, with whom LBJ put aside differences to work for approval of the Civil Rights Bill in 1964.

''The scripts we write for the episodes provide context for the calls, such a ...

... Call #3539-3540 (1964-05-28 / 11:45 AM). Persons: Robert Kennedy; Lee White, White House counsel on Civil Rights; Dick Gregory, performer and civil rights activist; Willard Wirtz, Labor Secretary; Douglas ...

... sible head of the Community Relations Service; Burke Marshall, Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights; Ralph McGill, publisher of the Atlanta Constitution; James Carmichael, General Manager of Lockheed. ...

... iew of the behind-the-scenes workings of the LBJ administration on such historic events as Vietnam, civil rights demonstrations, and the controversial 1964 Democratic Convention. One episode focuses on calls with Hubert Humphrey ...

... on Attorney General Robert Kennedy, with whom LBJ put aside differences to work for approval of the Civil Rights Bill in 1964.

''The scripts we write for the episodes provide context for the calls, such a ...

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Call #4938 (1964-08-14 / 8:25 PM). Persons: Hubert Humphrey, Senate Majority Whip; Joe Rauh, civil rights attorney; Walter Reuther, UAW president; John Bailey, Democratic National Committee chairman ...

... David Brinkley, NBC news anchors; Carroll Kilpatrick, Washington Post reporter; Roy Wilkins, civil rights leader and member of the NAACP. 

Call #5047 (1964-08-20 / 11:10 AM). Persons: George R ...

... iew of the behind-the-scenes workings of the LBJ administration on such historic events as Vietnam, civil rights demonstrations, and the controversial 1964 Democratic Convention. One episode focuses on calls with Hubert Humphrey ...

... on Attorney General Robert Kennedy, with whom LBJ put aside differences to work for approval of the Civil Rights Bill in 1964.

''The scripts we write for the episodes provide context for the calls, such a ...

... violent beatings during Selma to Montgomery Bloody Sunday march; Lee White, White House counsel for Civil Rights; Al Lingo, head of Alabama State Troopers; Jim Clark, Selma sheriff; John Conyers, Democrati ...

... ity and harmony. Delivered at the high point of the second American Revolution -- the struggle for civil rights -- King's words are now imbedded in the national conscience. Yet the story behind his 'I Have A Dr ...

... in Birmingham unleashed a firestorm of demonstrations and unrest around the nation. King and other civil rights leaders saw an opportunity to harness the momentum of the grassroots movement into a massive ...

... c story of inhumanity is unfolding in another African nation. As a bloody byproduct of the ongoing civil war in Sudan, hundreds of thousands of native Sudanese have died, while millions more have been for ...

... edented access to a contingent of African Union peacekeeping forces. Sand and Sorrow follows human rights activist John Prendergast, Harvard University professor Samantha Power and New York Times columnist ...

... ass-roots campaign to draw attention to the tragedy. Such regional activities are echoed in larger demonstrations in places like Washington, D.C., where a huge crowd gathered in 2006 to demand action and raise awa ...

... c story of inhumanity is unfolding in another African nation. As a bloody byproduct of the ongoing civil war in Sudan, hundreds of thousands of native Sudanese have died, while millions more have been for ...

... edented access to a contingent of African Union peacekeeping forces. Sand and Sorrow follows human rights activist John Prendergast, Harvard University professor Samantha Power and New York Times columnist ...

... ass-roots campaign to draw attention to the tragedy. Such regional activities are echoed in larger demonstrations in places like Washington, D.C., where a huge crowd gathered in 2006 to demand action and raise awa ...

... claimed filmmaker who was imprisoned for her films about the restricted lives of women; and a noted civil rights lawyer who is under constant pressure from the government for defending the rights of women and chi ...

... o conduct the first interview with President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad following the violently-suppressed demonstrations that marred his re-election and brought harsh international criticism.

"Curry asked him poin ...

... claimed filmmaker who was imprisoned for her films about the restricted lives of women; and a noted civil rights lawyer who is under constant pressure from the government for defending the rights of women and chi ...

... o conduct the first interview with President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad following the violently-suppressed demonstrations that marred his re-election and brought harsh international criticism.

"Curry asked him poin ...

... claimed filmmaker who was imprisoned for her films about the restricted lives of women; and a noted civil rights lawyer who is under constant pressure from the government for defending the rights of women and chi ...

... o conduct the first interview with President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad following the violently-suppressed demonstrations that marred his re-election and brought harsh international criticism.

"Curry asked him poin ...

... claimed filmmaker who was imprisoned for her films about the restricted lives of women; and a noted civil rights lawyer who is under constant pressure from the government for defending the rights of women and chi ...

... o conduct the first interview with President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad following the violently-suppressed demonstrations that marred his re-election and brought harsh international criticism.

"Curry asked him poin ...

... claimed filmmaker who was imprisoned for her films about the restricted lives of women; and a noted civil rights lawyer who is under constant pressure from the government for defending the rights of women and chi ...

... o conduct the first interview with President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad following the violently-suppressed demonstrations that marred his re-election and brought harsh international criticism.

"Curry asked him poin ...

... ey focus on positive stories overlooked by the mainstream media, with an emphasis on Africa and the Civil Rights movement, but produced for a widspread audience. After three years on the air, the impact of these ...

... is a show that was built from the ground up, a highly unusual collaboration between Andrew Young, a Civil Rights legend and former politician, and CB Hackworth, a longtime journalist. The show is funded t ...

... ies.

"More recent shows have been aimed at finding new ways to preserve stories of the Civil Rights movement, many of them 'untold,' for a widespread audience -- but especially young people, who know ...

... legislature voted in January to expunge the criminal records of all the protesters arrested during demonstrations, some of whom were still hindered from getting jobs and loans. Highlighted by rare archival footage, ...

... ey focus on positive stories overlooked by the mainstream media, with an emphasis on Africa and the Civil Rights movement, but produced for a widspread audience. After three years on the air, the impact of these ...

... is a show that was built from the ground up, a highly unusual collaboration between Andrew Young, a Civil Rights legend and former politician, and CB Hackworth, a longtime journalist. The show is funded t ...

... ies.

"More recent shows have been aimed at finding new ways to preserve stories of the Civil Rights movement, many of them 'untold,' for a widespread audience -- but especially young people, who know ...

... legislature voted in January to expunge the criminal records of all the protesters arrested during demonstrations, some of whom were still hindered from getting jobs and loans. Highlighted by rare archival footage, ...

... ey focus on positive stories overlooked by the mainstream media, with an emphasis on Africa and the Civil Rights movement, but produced for a widspread audience. After three years on the air, the impact of these ...

... is a show that was built from the ground up, a highly unusual collaboration between Andrew Young, a Civil Rights legend and former politician, and CB Hackworth, a longtime journalist. The show is funded t ...

... ies.

"More recent shows have been aimed at finding new ways to preserve stories of the Civil Rights movement, many of them 'untold,' for a widespread audience -- but especially young people, who know ...

... legislature voted in January to expunge the criminal records of all the protesters arrested during demonstrations, some of whom were still hindered from getting jobs and loans. Highlighted by rare archival footage, ...

... Summary: "One of the bloodiest, most prolonged and important chapters of the Civil Rights movement took place in a small Florida tourist town -- yet, incredibly, 45 years later, the events somehow had vanished fr ...

... ille community, which begins just three blocks from St. Augustine's town square, had persisted in a Civil Rights movement of their own -- but without the television cameras and news coverage that followed ...

... Americans of goodwill, and forcing President Lyndon Johnson to demand passage of the historic Civil Rights act of 1964.

"Unfortunately, upon his return, Young found the city largely unchanged. Altho ...

... legislature voted in January to expunge the criminal records of all the protesters arrested during demonstrations, some of whom were still hindered from getting jobs and loans.

"Highlighted by rare archival ...

... body Award.

"This online multimedia feature is a collaboration between The New Yorker and Human Rights Watch marking the historic 20th anniversary of the fall of the Soviet Union.

"It includes po ...

... put the project into context, in an essay that accompanies the online feature:

"'The street demonstrations sweeping Russia this month have defied the usual stereotypes about the passivity of the Russian peo ...

... untry. People compared the violence of this incident to the Rodney King story and the images of the Civil Rights Movement, where police dogs were let loose on demonstrators.

"The Anaheim Police Department ...

... ting and the melee that followed, captured by videographer Laurie Fernandez.

... ice in Ferguson, Missouri. In the weeks following the shooting, the militarized police response to demonstrations by local black communities made national headlines. But the anger that initially poured out onto th ...

... e same decision in the police chokehold death of Eric Garner. While there are calls for reform and civil rights investigations continue, many residents in communities like Ferguson say that odds will always be s ...

... 014, Oscar-nominated 'Winter on Fire: Ukraine's Fight For Freedom' witnesses the formation of a new civil rights movement in Ukraine. What started as peaceful student demonstrations supporting European integratio ...

... ndreds of protesters. It was this moment that ultimately gave rise to mass protests and large-scale civil unrest in the country. In response, millions of Ukrainians rallied together to fight against the po ...

... the story of the extraordinary courage of a heartbroken mother who used her grief to galvanize the Civil Rights movement' a courage that is echoed in today's Black Lives Matter demonstrations. The lynching of 1 ...

... ie Bunch tells America Tonight that Mrs. Till's decision proved to be 'the first step in the modern Civil Rights movement.' And her insistence on exposing the truth created what we now know as 'viral' medi ...

... down the Confederate flag, she was acting on lessons learned at age 13 while watching the landmark civil rights series Eyes on the Prize. 'It made a really profound impact on me to see the role that young peo ...

... ary, Eyes on the Prize Then and Now. Aimed at younger viewers who did not live through America's civil rights years, Eyes on the Prize Then and Now offers an opportunity to share with new audiences the ...

... of Emmett Till. In the midst of today's national turmoil, the time is right for the nation's civil rights history to be front and center as an essential part of the public discourse. Eyes on the Prize The ...

... ge with cellphone recordings from witnesses who were at the scene of Brown's murder and the ensuing demonstrations. Quotes from well-known black civil rights leaders and thinkers like Martin Luther King Jr. and Maya ...

... which 1,300 children under 17 are killed by guns each year. As the nation was glued to the largest demonstrations unfolding across the country, we offered a poignant look back on mass shootings of the past few yea ...

... back at other youth-led movements. Lester Holt told the story of young people who helped carry the civil rights movement of the 1960s and the protests against the Vietnam War. This perspective helped frame the m ...

... icipants’ reflections today,’63 BOYCOTT connects the forgotten story of one of the largest northern civil rights demonstrations to contemporary issues around race, education, school closings, and youth activism. Filmmaker Stat ...

... f Chicago. We would later form Kartemquin Films in 1966. When we were tipped off that a large-scale civil rights demonstration against Chicago public school segregation was brewing, we knew we had to film it. We ...

... edad O'Brien" looked to create a show that would contextualize the events within the context of the civil rights movement and various criminal justice reform efforts, and the kinds of legal protections that polic ...

... , a member of the South Carolina State Legislature. Now 35, he was a voice for generation raised by civil rights advocates. In a deeply moving conversation with Soledad, he reflects on the forces that sha ...

... years before he was born. That night, highway patrolmen shot his father, Cleveland Sellers, a civil rights activist, during a protest to integrate a bowling alley. Cleveland Sellers was jailed for his invo ...

... on diversity and inclusion issues with police departments, to talk about the impact of the national demonstrations, the larger movement to fight systemic racism within policing, and the kinds of reforms he thinks ca ...

... way – we wanted to take history and enliven it with the rebellious spirit of the moment. The LGBTQ Rights movement has its roots in the 1950’s when, under the chilling threat of McCarthyism, queer people w ...

... . They directly challenged oppressive systems through publications, legal means, and the first open demonstrations by gays and lesbians. Radical tactics that activists today still rely on to build coalitions and to ...

... . This only strengthened our resolve, in the third episode, to explore the profound impact that the Civil Rights movement had on the gay rights movement as it grew through the 1960’s. The continued challen ...

... in the pursuit of social justice, especially in times of crisis. In the wake of Black Lives Matter demonstrations that turned violent in Buffalo, New York, viewers see how decades of inner-city grievances regardin ...

... on the Niagara Frontier from the Underground Railroad to modern times. Buffalo is where the modern civil rights movement had its earliest roots, yet Black inner-city neighborhoods remain crime ridden and caught ...

... ment of “The Buffalo Story” shows how fourth grade inner-city students react after viewing historic civil rights events that unfolded in their own neighborhoods. Executive producer Rich Newberg, who reti ...

... e ever-expanding diocese of Los Angeles, at a time when the world around them was changing rapidly. Civil rights, Chicano rights, women’s rights, farmworkers rights – the social justice movements of the 1960s were ...

... als before entering the classroom. They subverted what was expected of Sisters by putting on joyful demonstrations and art “happenings.” Among this community of extraordinary women was the celebrated pop artist Sis ...

... of a champion athlete’s defining moment and his rise to fame and activism amid a tumultuous year of demonstrations and assassinations. We witness the behind the scenes story of Ashe’s historic 1968 victory and his ...

... ind of champion. The film goes beyond sports to examine how he created his own unique blueprint for Civil Rights advancement — long-term and intentional —not only for African-Americans, but for disenfranchised an ...

... e deterioration of race relations."--1964 Peabody Digest. Wayne Fariss describes the development of civil rights protests in St. Augustine, where the white power structure asserts that all racial unrest is caused ...

... ose newspaper has a segregationist bias; high school student JoAnn Anderson, who has been active in demonstrations; and tour buggy driver Paul Davis. Includes footage of his toric sites; Mrs. Malcolm Peabody, wife o ...

... and produced by Marcia Tompkins, about her hometown, Tuscaloosa, Alabama. This one, which concerns civil rights demonstrations, includes comments from some of those involved- civil rights workers, townspeople, t ...

... Kentucky Profiles. [1977-12-19], Lyman Johnson, Civil Rights Activist ...

... Includes black slugs for commercial inserts. | Copyright: "c MCMLXXVIII CBS Inc. all rights reserved"--end credits. ...