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Awakenings (1954-1956)

Season 1 Episode 1 | 56m 15s

Individual acts of courage inspire Black Southerners to fight for their rights: Mose Wright testifies against the white men who murdered young Emmett Till, and Rosa Parks refuses to give up her bus seat to a white man in Montgomery, Alabama.

Aired: 04/03/21 | Expires: 03/06/24
Funding provided by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, Ford Foundation and viewers like you.
Extras
Power and powerlessness in the cities of Miami and Chicago.
Anti-discrimination rights gained in past decades by the movement are put to the test.
A call to pride and a renewed push for unity galvanize Black America.
Black activism is increasingly met with an unethical response from law enforcement.
The call for Black Power takes various forms across communities in Black America.
Martin Luther King, Jr. stakes out new ground for himself and the Civil Rights Movement.
After a decade-long cry for justice, a new sound is heard in the movement: call for power.
The Kerner Commission finds "two societies, one black, one white, separate and unequal."
A decade of lessons is applied in the climactic and bloody march from Selma to Montgomery,
A decade of lessons is applied in the climactic and bloody march from Selma to Montgomery,
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Power and powerlessness in the cities of Miami and Chicago.
Anti-discrimination rights gained in past decades by the movement are put to the test.
A call to pride and a renewed push for unity galvanize Black America.
Black activism is increasingly met with an unethical response from law enforcement.
The call for Black Power takes various forms across communities in Black America.
Martin Luther King, Jr. stakes out new ground for himself and the Civil Rights Movement.
After a decade-long cry for justice, a new sound is heard in the movement: call for power.
The Kerner Commission finds "two societies, one black, one white, separate and unequal."
A decade of lessons is applied in the climactic and bloody march from Selma to Montgomery,
Mississippi’s grassroots Civil Rights Movement becomes an American concern.