Ain't Scared of Your Jails (1954-1965) Part 12

Description

The agency provided description reads as follows: This episode looks at college students as they began to take an important role in the Civil Rights movement in the early 1960s. Lunch counter sit-ins spread from Nashville, Tennessee, throughout the south, giving life to a new force within the movement: The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). Many of these students joined the freedom rides initiated by The Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), and soon found themselves facing the threat of death in their attempts to break down segregation in interstate bus travel below the Mason-Dixon line. The producers of this video are Blackside, Inc., Henry Hampton, Callie Crossley, and James A. De Vinney.

Collection

Records of the U.S. Agency for Global Media

Series

Video Tape Programs and Worldnet Broadcasts