A History of Black Achievement in America, Vol. 4

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Program 7: Civil Rights - Ralph Bunche wins the Nobel Peace Prize; Gwendolyn Brooks becomes the first black recipient of the Pulitzer Prize; Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas; Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat to a white passenger on a Montgomery bus; Althea Gibson, first black woman to win a Tennis Grand Slam event; Lorraine Hansberry's play "A Raisin in the Sun" is produced; Martin Luther King, Jr. delivers his "I Have a Dream" speech. Program 8: A New Age - Muhammad Ali refuses induction into the U.S. Army on religious grounds; Thurgood Marshall, first black U.S. Supreme Court Justice; Alex Haley's "Roots: The Saga of an American Family" appears on TV; Colin Powell appointed Secretary of State; Neil deGrasse Tyson becomes Astrophysics' superstar.

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