Episode #5: Mississippi: Is This America?: Mississippi becomes a testing ground of constitutional principles as activists focus on the right to vote. Key participants recount the state's resistance to the movement and the equally strong determination of black and white organizers to bring blacks into the political process. NAACP leader Medgar Evers is assassinated and three civil rights workers are murdered. Amidst the horror, the Civil Rights Bill of 1964 is passed. Episode #6: Bridge to Freedom (1965). Eyewitness accounts by the Rev. C.T. Vivian Stokley Carmichael, and George Wallace illuminate the events of 1965 focusing on a decade of lessons learned and the rule of television in the civil rights movement. Martin Luther King Jr. receives the Nobel Peace Prize. TV images of troopers gassing demonstrators on a Selma bridge fill living rooms. Twenty-five thousand people march from Selma to Montgomery helping to ensure the passage of the Voting Right Act of 1965.

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2 episodes on 1 DVD. Special features: Interview with Henry Hampton, Profiles; Primary source and graphs; Originally produced as television programs in 1986. Mississippi: is this America?: 1962-1964 -- Bridge to Freedom: 1965.