I just can't even imagine. These are the kind of people who should have schools and parks named for them - not treasonous bastards. These folks were the epitome of courage

What they went through!

The riders sure woke up the Kennedy's.

There was, at first, a White House man on the ground in Montgomery, and he got hit over the head.

African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross. And the statistic of 3 lynchings a week stuck in my mind. There was a piece about some black men whose business was about to get torched, and they defended their business by shooting the white men who came to destroy it. Of course they were arrested, and tortured to death. I think this was in Memphis, and it led to a reporter saying that black people needed to go West... and they did. And Memphis' economy was trashed. My heart bleeds...

It's easy to look back on it and, knowing how it turned out, assume that I would have done it. But at the time, no one knew how it would turn out, it was terrifying and dangerous. It must have been a wrenching, difficult decision to make to go into that lion's den. Nothing but props and respect for those who did it.

at the time, and had been raised on the hatred and bigotry, would I have known better anyway, seen through it? Or would I have been one of those terrible white people dumping milkshakes on people trying to integrate lunch counters.

My grandmother who grew up in the south claims that she always hated segregation and spoke up, but I suspect that is the same as how everyone was a member of the resistance in France during WW2. I am.... cynical about those claims.

And yea, the courage of the people who stood up against Jim Crow is awe inspiring. A bunch of them died. Everyone who did that work in the south knew that they where risking their lives. If they were local, they knew their FAMILIES could be dead too, because the terrorists were perfectly willing to murder children if it would protect white supremacy.

But I am familiar with the historical facts.

Which character most resonated with you? Was there a particular scene that moved you the most?

Learning about the Civil Rights movement was soul changing for me. The combination of intellect, spirituality and raw physical courage speaks to my temperament perfectly.

I had not heard of him. But Whitney did have the ear of presidents Johnson and Nixon.

He was responsible for so much progress and he was a go between of MLK and the radical violence based activists, who, working together for the same goals, changed America for the better.

What a hero!!

Two hours long so each time learned something else I had missed.

Toward the end of that 1964 summer was the Democratic Party Convention. The Freedom Democratic Party of Mississippi sent their own delegation to the convention and asked that it replace the white only delegation.

This is must see TV.

LBJ actively fought against the FDP actions to be included in the party. The Powers That Be ended up giving only two seats in the Mississippi delegation to Blacks, but the next year LBJ introduced the Voting Rights Act.

His compromise was to seat all the whites except for two from the FDP.

He is recorded in the show as making a statement of fear of Blacks taking over the party and the WH.