John Patterson speaks about the slow progress of integration.

Glenda Davis speaks about the Southern white press.

John Patterson speaks about JFK carrying the Solid South.

John Patterson speaks about Jim Crow Laws.

John Patterson speaks about the Freedom Ride in Anniston.

William Harbour speaks about Bull Connor taking the Freedom Ride to the Tennessee/Alabama border

Hank Thomas talks about meeting with white students from American University.

Reverend C.T. Vivian speaks about the Kennedys' response to the Freedom Riders.

Hank Thomas speaks about dressing well during the Freedom Rides.

Israel Dresner speaks about Nonviolence.

This biography examines the life and career of our often overlooked 41st president, from his service in WWII and his early career in Texas to his days in the Oval Office, first as vice president to Ronald Reagan, then as the leader who presided over the first Gulf War. The film also explores Bush's role as the patriarch of a political family whose influence is unequaled in modern American life.

This biography examines the life and career of our often overlooked 41st president, from his service in WWII and his early career in Texas to his days in the Oval Office, first as vice president to Ronald Reagan, then as the leader who presided over the first Gulf War. The film also explores Bush's role as the patriarch of a political family whose influence is unequaled in modern American life.

Bob Conroy, a Private in the 83rd Infantry during the Battle of the Bulge, describes his experience of the battle in two clips. In the first, he remembers the sound of bullets from German machine gun, and in the second recounts the death of a comrade named Gordon.

H.W.O. Kinnard, Colonel in the 101st Airborne during the Battle of the Bulge, remembers General McAuliffe's reaction to the German surrender ultimatum.

Sports journalists often mocked Latino ballplayers' English or, along with Major League Baseball, tried to ignore their "unamerican" heritage.

Roberto Clemente was more than just a baseball player for the Pittsburgh Pirates; he was a role model for Latinos in the United States.

In 1955, Roberto Clemente attended his first spring training in Florida. Segregation was a new, unexpected experience for him.

In the 1940s, Puerto Rico's winter baseball league was paradise for black and white players, and an inspiration for a young Roberto Clemente

On a hot summer day in 1855, a 36-year-old writer emerged from an undistinguished printer's shop in Brooklyn, New York, carrying a slim volume of his work. With his book of a dozen poems, Leaves of Grass, he was about to introduce America to a savior.

In October 1897, the renowned Arctic explorer Robert Peary returned to New York from his latest Greenland expedition. At the request of anthropologist Franz Boas, he brought with him five polar Eskimos for study at the American Museum of Natural History.