The Sixties — Season 1, Episode 5: A Long March to Freedom (1960 – 1968)

Episode synopsis

Selma, Birmingham, and the March on Washington are reexamined by eyewitnesses to history. Diane Nash, U.S. Rep. John Lewis, U.S. Rep. Eleanor Holmes Norton, Rev. C.T. Vivian, Bob Moses, Diane McWhorter, Taylor Branch, David Garrow, and Isabel Wilkerson give critical context to the lunch counter sit-ins, Freedom Rides, Freedom Summer, integration, and the Children’s Crusade for the moral mission of the Civil Rights Movement.

About The Sixties

The space race, the cold war, "free love," civil rights and more: The decade of the 1960s shaped our history -- and changed the world. In collaboration with Tom Hanks, Gary Goetzman and Mark Herzog, CNN explores perhaps the most transformative decade of the modern era in a 10-part documentary series and brings new insights into how those events shaped today.

More episodes from Season 1

• E1Television Comes of Age (1960 - 1969)
• E2The World on the Brink (1960 – 1963)
• E3The Assassination of Kennedy (1963 - 1969)
• E4The War in Vietnam (1961 – 1968)
• E6The British Invasion (1964 - 1967)
• E7The Space Race (1960 – 1969)
• E81968 (1968)
• E9The Times, They Are A-Changin’ (1960 – 1969)
• E10Sex, Drugs, and Rock N’ Roll (1960 – 1969)