Jazz musician Billy Taylor remembers coming into contact with Bull Connor, the police chief in Alabama during the 1963 African American Civil Rights protests. Taylor was hired to play at a benefit concert set up by Martin Luther King Jr.
A foot soldier in the Children’s Crusade movement for African American Civil Rights explains how she first got interested in becoming part of the movement as well as how she learned about the importance of keeping the demonstrations nonviolent with singing and prayer.
Sarah Collins Rudolph gives her firsthand account of her survival of the Birmingham church bombing that the Ku Klux Klan were responsible for in 1963. The tragic event became a landmark moment in the Civil Rights efforts.