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American Experience

Ain't Scared Of Your Jails 1960-1961/No Easy Walk

Season 19, Episode 2 of 13

Ain't Scared of Your Jails 1960-1961 -- Black college students take a leadership role in the civil rights movement as lunch counter sit-ins spread across the South. "Freedom Riders" also try to desegregate interstate buses, but they are brutally attacked as they travel. No Easy Walk 1961-1963 - The civil rights movement discovers the power of mass demonstrations as the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. emerges as its most visible leader. Some demonstrations succeed; others fail. But the triumphant March on Washington, DC, under King's leadership, shows a mounting national support for civil rights. President John F. Kennedy proposes the Civil Rights Act.

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