Video footage from the segregation era, documents the millions of white Americans who arrested, beat, bombed, and terrorized civil rights demonstrators, including children.

Stone Mountain — The world's largest bas-relief sculpture honors the site where the Ku Klux Klan was reborn. Created in direct opposition to the civil rights movement, today it remains specially protected by Georgia law.

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White Citizens' Council — Over 10,000 people gathered in Montgomery to hear Brown v. Board denounced in ringing tones and to join a growing Southern chorus loudly vowing to defy the integration decree.

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The Montgomery Bus Boycott — Facing Harassment, Arrests, Shootings, and Bombings in the Cradle of the Confederacy.

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The Children's Crusade — Children nonviolently protesting racial segregation in Birmingham, Alabama, were arrested, beaten, and knocked down by fire hoses.

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Bloody Sunday — Peaceful protestors for voting rights were viciously attacked and beaten by police on the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama.

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