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The Keys to the Kingdom (1974-1980)

Season 2 Episode 7

In the 1970s, anti-discrimination legal rights gained in past decades by the Civil Rights Movement are put to the test. In Boston, some whites violently resist a federal court school desegregation order. Atlanta's first black mayor, Maynard Jackson, proves that affirmative action can work, but the Bakke Supreme Court case challenges that policy.

Aired: 05/15/21
Funding provided by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, Ford Foundation and viewers like you.
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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.
Black activism is increasingly met with an unethical response from law enforcement.
A call to pride and a renewed push for unity galvanize Black America.
Martin Luther King, Jr. stakes out new ground for himself and the Civil Rights Movement.
The call for Black Power takes various forms across communities in Black America.
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.
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Power and powerlessness in the cities of Miami and Chicago.
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.
The Civil Rights Movement discovers the power of mass demonstrations.