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Discusses the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) in the South between 1960 and 1965, exploring its accomplishments, work with larger civil rights groups and Black Power, use of sit-ins, and key individuals, including Charles Sherrod, Bob Moses, and Fannie Lou Hamer.

Michele Wallace blasted the masculine biases of the black politics that emerged from the sixties. She described how women remained marginalized by the patriarchal culture of Black Power, demonstrating the ways in which a genuine female subjectivity was blocked by the traditional myths of black womanhood"

Chronicles the events surrounding the 1944 rape and beating of an African-American woman by seven white men in Abbeville, Alabama, focusing on Rosa Parks' investigation into the case and the impact her involvement had on the 1955 boycott she started, which in turn led to the civil rights movement.

Combines contemporary interviews with historical footage to examine the civil rights movement, focusing on events and significant individuals from 1964 through 1971, such as Cassius Clay's struggle to become accepted as a Muslim and J. Edgar Hoover's declaration that the Black Panthers were the number one threat to internal security.