The Sixties

Season 1 Episode 5: A Long March to Freedom (1960 – 1968)

Selma, Birmingham, and the March on Washington are reexamined by eyewitnesses to history. 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 give critical context to the lunch counter sit-ins, Freedom Rides, Freedom Summer, integration, and the Children’s Crusade for the moral mission of the Civil Rights Movement.

Genre:

Documentary

Seasons:

1

Episodes:

10

Cast:

Tom Hanks, Walter Cronkite, David Brinkley

Quality:

HD

Duration:

60 min

First Air:

2014

Rating:

7.4