Ondergrondse Sporen — Season 1, Episode 3: Civil Rights
Documentary • 45 min • 1 season, 5 episodes
Episode synopsis
Atlanta, the city of Martin Luther King. Is his fight for equal civil rights over? Martijn and Finbarr attend a service at the Vision Church. There they meet LGBTQ+ activist Tracey, who fights for the civil rights of trans people. In Jackson, Mississippi, they investigate the role of the Freedom Riders, a group of white and black students who traveled through the southern US on buses in the 1960s to combat racial segregation. They were dispersed with brute force. A generation ago, the Klu Klux Klan marched through the black neighborhoods of Selma, Alabama. What are the relations between black and white now?
About Ondergrondse Sporen
Martijn Blekendaal and Finbarr Wilbrink travel along the Underground Railroad, the underground network that helped thousands of enslaved people escape to freedom. They ask themselves: How does the past of slavery impact contemporary life in America?