"John Lewis, who at age twenty-five marched in Selma and was beaten on the Edmund Pettus Bridge, is a visionary and a man of faith. Using intimate interviews with Lewis and his family and deep research into the history of the civil rights movement, Meacham writes of how the activist and leader was inspired by the Bible, his mother's unbreakable spirit, his sharecropper father's tireless ambition, and his teachers in nonviolence, Reverend James Lawson...

"A recounting of protests throughout American history that have shaped our nation"--

Shares the story of how "General" Rosalie Gardner Jones marched an army of women nearly one hundred seventy-five miles to win support for voting rights for women.

"When it comes to Confederate monuments, there is no common ground. Polarizing debates over their meaning have intensified into legislative maneuvering to preserve the statues, legal battles to remove them, and rowdy crowds taking matters into their own hands. These conflicts have raged for well over a century--but they've never been as intense as they are today. In this eye-opening narrative of the efforts to raise, preserve, protest, and remove...

A vivid account of the largest act of civil disobedience in US history, in Richard Nixon's Washington.

Documentary on the Columbia University student strike and takeover in 1969.

Educating 1960s-1970s campus protesters as to "what's right with America." (25 minutes)

Vietnam War. Century Plaza in Los Angeles anti-Vietnam demonstration. neo-Nazi George Lincoln Rockwell heckles protestors and is arrested.

Vietnam War. Century Plaza in Los Angeles anti-war protest. Marchers chant and sit down in defiance

South African police violence against apartheid protesters