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DVD: The History Channel Presents Voices of Civil Rights

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From the fearless resolve of a single man to the remarkable voices of thousands marching VOICES OF CIVIL RIGHTS provides a stunning overview of one of America s greatest defining moments.VOICES OF CIVIL RIGHTS: This collection of personal narratives was created by a group of journalists photographers and videographers as they embarked on a bus trip around the country to create the largest archive of oral histories of the Civil Rights Movement.MISSISSIPPI STATE SECRETS: Go inside the shadowy operations of the Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission whose job was to spy on people connected to the Civil Rights Movement.CROSSING THE BRIDGE: In 1965 a line of civil rights protestors crossed the Edmund Pettis Bridge in Selma Alabama on a march to the capital in Montgomery. Alabama State Troopers blocked their path and the unprovoked brutality that followed shocked a nation.BIOGRAPHY: MARTIN LUTHER KING JR.: THE MAN AND THE DREAM: This one-of-a-kind profile uses rare footage and photos to show how King s ideas and views adapted to the rapidly changing climate of the Civil Rights Movement.BIOGRAPHY: THURGOOD MARSHALL: JUSTICE FOR ALL: As a civil rights lawyer he turned the floor of the Supreme Court into his personal battleground. As a member of the court he presided over some of the most influential decisions in American history.System Requirements:Running Time: 243 MinFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: DOCUMENTARIES/MISC. UPC: 733961717167 Manufacturer No: AAE-71716
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If you buy one DVD on Civil Rights buy this one!

2008-02-17
I could not believe how good this 2 disc DVD set is.
I will keep it forever and watch it over and over again.
The DVD mixes historical film with modern interviews of the people who lived through the civil rights struggle. Blacks and whites. For and against.
One of the most moving parts for me was to watch Billy Roy Pitts, former Klansman, discuss how he was ordered to assist in the murder of Vernon Dahmer in 1966. Why? Vernon was a civil rights and NAACP leader in Mississippi. Vernon was helping people to register to vote by allowing them to register in his store. Billy Roy Pitts tells his story. He turned on the Klan and testified against them. He also tells how the Dahmer family visited him in prison, forgave him for killing Vernon Dahmer and asked the Governor to pardon him. He tell how at that time he thought he was doing the right thing. That interview was worth the price of the DVD alone. To see Vernon Dahmer's widow interviewed. To learn that his 4 sons were away serving in the military at the time their father was being murdered. To decide as a family they would forgive the man that killed their husband and father.
I was born in 1964 in New York so I missed so much, and so much of this history isn't taught in schools. There is so much more on these 2 disks.