Bridge to Freedom (1965) Part 1

Description

The agency provided description reads as follows: Ten years after Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a white man on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama, and nearly 11 years after the decree that separate but equal was unconstitutional, black Americans were still fighting for equality. In this episode, millions have joined the movement, and in Selma, Alabama, thousands of blacks and whites came together in the climactic 50- mile march from Selma to Montgomery demanding the right to vote. Even as the movement began to break into factions, the Voting Rights Act became federal law. The producers of this video are Blackside, Inc., Henry Hampton, and Judith Veccione.

Collection

Records of the U.S. Agency for Global Media

Series

Video Tape Programs and Worldnet Broadcasts