Bill Moyers' Walk Through the 20th Century: The Second American Revolution

• 1984

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This video is part of a PBS series, narrated by journalist Bill Moyers, that looks at some of the most influential ideas, events, and people of the 20th century. This program is the second episode in a two-part series that chronicles the history of the civil rights movement in the United States. Moyers discusses with Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee the development of the American education system, from the days of the "separate but equal" doctrine of segregation, to the groundbreaking desegregation case in 1954 of Brown vs. the Board of Education of Topeka, KS.