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Includes: "Freedom Fighters": Explore the 20th-century struggle against racial segregation, and meet its two most-prominent icons. Includes two feature segments: Mandela & Apartheid; King & Civil Rights, "Social Activism in the United States": Discover how ordinary citizens fought against segregation and how freedom finally overcame bigotry. Follow the United State's involvement in the Vietnam War and the subsequent backlash. And explore how events of the 1960s and '70s shaped American lives, and "Racial Inequality: Remnants of a Troubled Time": Investigate the United States' early history of slavery and the legacy of the battle for equal rights in this country. Examine the major social and economic challenges facing the North and the South after the Civil War. Take an in-depth look at Brown v. Board of Education, the Supreme Court's landmark decision which ended legalized school segregation. And assess the country's progress a half-century later.
