Fighting Back (1957–1962) | Promo
Preview: Season 1 Episode 2 | 30sVideo has Closed Captions
States’ rights, loyalists, and federal authorities collide over school integration.
States’ rights, loyalists, and federal authorities collide in the 1957 battle to integrate Little Rock’s Central High School, and again in James Meredith’s 1962 challenge to segregation at the University of Mississippi. Both times, a Southern governor squares off with a US president, violence erupts - and integration is carried out.
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Fighting Back (1957–1962) | Promo
Preview: Season 1 Episode 2 | 30sVideo has Closed Captions
States’ rights, loyalists, and federal authorities collide in the 1957 battle to integrate Little Rock’s Central High School, and again in James Meredith’s 1962 challenge to segregation at the University of Mississippi. Both times, a Southern governor squares off with a US president, violence erupts - and integration is carried out.
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Fighting Back (1957–1962) | Elizabeth Eckford
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Elizabeth Eckford arrives for her first day of school, only to be met by an angry crowd. (32s)
Fighting Back (1957–1962) | Minnijean Brown
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Little Rock Nine students recall when Minnijean Brown retaliated against harassment. (1m 9s)
Fighting Back (1957–1962) | The Little Rock Nine
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Melba Pattillo Beals shares the police's plan to escort the Little Rock Nine to safety. (33s)
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