Actors
Ralph Abernathy , Joe Azbell , Frances Belser , Unita Blackwell , Julian Bond , Roy Bryant , Charles C. Diggs Jr. , Virginia Durr , James Eastland , Sam Engelhardt , Georgia Gilmore , Ernest Green , Fannie Lou Hamer , James Hicks , William Bradford Huie
About
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Story
The acclaimed documentary series opens with the earliest origins of The Civil Right Movement. As the United States emerges from World War II, many black men who had been relegated to second class citizenry at home, return home from overseas where they were trained as officers and other positions of authority. Returning home, they determined to put that authority into their lives on the home front despite resistance from white Americans. The lynch-pin of The Civil Rights Movement is formed form two specific events. First, is the murder of 14 year-old Emmett Till in 1955, a black Chicago teenager who was murdered by two white Mississippians for supposedly breaking the south's strict social code by making a pass at a white woman. In the midst outrage over the men being acquitted of the murder by an all-white jury, Till's mother put her son's disfigured corpse on display in an open-casket funeral so that the Black Chicago citizens could see the horror of his murder first-hand - then put ...
