The Sixties (2014)

Episode Overview

Eyewitnesses to history reflect on Selma, Birmingham, and the March on Washington. Diane Nash, U.S. Rep. John Lewis, U.S. Rep. Eleanor Holmes Norton, Rev. C.T. Vivian, Bob Moses, Diane McWhorter, Taylor Branch, David Garrow, and Isabel Wilkerson provide essential insights into the lunch counter sit-ins, Freedom Rides, Freedom Summer, integration efforts, and the Children’s Crusade, highlighting the moral imperatives that drove the Civil Rights Movement.