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Eyes on the Prize: America's Civil Rights Movement, Vol. 6 (1990)

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Ain't gonna shuffle no more (1964-1972): A call to pride and a renewed push for unity galvanizes Black Americans.

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Eyes on the Prize: America's Civil Rights Movement, Vol. 6

Eyes on the Prize: America's Civil Rights Movement, Vol. 5 (1990)

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Power! (1966-1968): Across America, the call for "Black Power" mobilizes communities for change in strikingly different ways as told through the perspectives of Black Panther Party members, teachers, and politicians. Promised land (1967-1968): Hear leaders and activists reflect on Martin Luther Kings, Jr's crusade to overcome the fragmenting civil rights movement.

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Eyes on the Prize: America's Civil Rights Movement, Vol. 5

Eyes on the Prize: America's Civil Rights Movement, Vol. 4 (1990)

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The time has come (1964-1966): Malcolm X...Stokely Carmichael..."Black Power". After a decade-long cry for justice, a new sound is on the horizon: the insistent call for power. Two societies (1965-1968): Chicago...Detroit...the Kerner Commission.

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Eyes on the Prize: America's Civil Rights Movement, Vol. 4

Eyes on the Prize: America's Civil Rights Movement, Vol. 3 (1986)

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Mississippi: is this America? (1962-1964) : Focuses on the right to vote. Tells how the black citizens who had been denied the right to vote stepped forward and demanded a place in the political process. Medgar Evers, Michael Schwerner, Andrew Goodman, James Chaney, and others, died trying to help them.

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Eyes on the Prize: America's Civil Rights Movement, Vol. 3

Eyes on the Prize: America's Civil Rights Movement, Vol. 2 (1986)

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Ain't scared of your jails (1960-1961): Covers lunch counter sit-ins and their impact on the Kennedy and Nixon presidential race of 1960, the formation of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee, and the freedom rides of 1961. No easy walk (1961-1963): Visits the cities where the tactics of nonviolent protest met both success and failure.

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Eyes on the Prize: America's Civil Rights Movement, Vol. 2

Hunt for the Supertwister: Chasing Nature's Most Powerful Tornadoes (2004)

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Little on this earth can withstand the violent fury of an F5 tornado. A churning vortex with winds over 300 miles an hour, these tornadoes create immense swaths of death and destruction in a matter of seconds. But today, experts are exploring the supertwister's complex inner working in bold new ways in the hopes of one day being able to accurately predict the occurrences of tornadoes.

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Hunt for the Supertwister: Chasing Nature's Most Powerful Tornadoes

World in the Balance: The Population Paradox (2004)

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Part 1: The People Paradox: Startling trends in population are discussed as the program looks at the aging populations of Japan, Europe, and Russia. But in parts of Africa and India, more than half of the still growing population is under 25. The conclusion: the world population is careening in two dramatically different directions.

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World in the Balance: The Population Paradox

U.S. Constitution, Vol. 4: The Constitution in a Changing World; Constitutional Reform and Controversy (2005)

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This 8-part series explores how The U.S. Constitution came to be. Program 7: The Constitution in a Changing World1919 - The Supreme Court Limits Free Speech and Freedom of the Press in Schenck v.

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U.S. Constitution, Vol. 4: The Constitution in a Changing World; Constitutional Reform and Controversy

U.S. Constitution, Vol. 3: The Constitution Survives; The Constitution is Expanded (2005)

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This 8-part series explores how The U.S. Constitution came to be.

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U.S. Constitution, Vol. 3: The Constitution Survives; The Constitution is Expanded

U.S. Constitution, Vol. 2: Writing the Constitution and the Bill of Rights; Testing the Constitution (2005)

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This 8-part series explores how The U.S. Constitution came to be.

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U.S. Constitution, Vol. 2: Writing the Constitution and the Bill of Rights; Testing the Constitution

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