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Summary: NOT a history, NOT any good
Comment: Talk about false advertising, this video will NOT provide students w/ any understanding of the civil rights movement beyond simple platitudes spouted by CNN reporters. There is NO narration over archive film clips, no speeches by MLK (just a couple of brief library shots of the man), indeed no history whatsoever.
This is simply a collection of CNN reports w/o any reference to historical context. I made the mistake of (1) believing the first reviewer; (2) shelling out $60 for this POS, and (3) showing it to my students before previewing it. Waste of time and $. I'm still looking for a good 30 minute video/dvd that can provide some sort of history of the civil rights movement in America. But this one is crap.
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Summary: A Quick Overview
Comment: If you need to introduce a group of students to the American Civil Rights movement of the 1950s and 60s, and you only have a short amount of time to give them the big picture, this is an excellent choice. Videos like Eyes on the Prize or bios of Martin Luther King are excellent for in-depth study. But this captures the feel of an era in a very short (30 min.) video.
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