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The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross – Season 1, Episode 5 Rise! (1940-1968)

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Blacks returning from World War II continue to face racial violence on the homefront; Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat on a city bus in 1955; Martin Luther King Jr. promotes a nonviolent approach to integrate blacks and whites.

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Henry Louis Gates

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The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross — Season 1, Episode 5

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Synopsis Blacks returning from World War II continue to face racial violence on the homefront; Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat on a city bus in 1955; Martin Luther King Jr. promotes a nonviolent approach to integrate blacks and whites.
Network
PBS
Rating
TV-PG (V)
Genre
Documentary, History
Original Language
English
Release Date
Nov 19, 2013