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Fighting Back, 1957-1962

S1 · E2 · 28 Jan 1987 · 1 hr 0 min

States' rights loyalists and federal authorities collide in the 1957 battle to integrate Little Rock's Central High School, and again in James Meredith's 1962 challenge to segregation at the University of Mississippi. Both times, a Southern governor squares off with a U.S. president, violence erupts -- and integration is carried out.

Directing

Judith Vecchione · Director

Production

Jo Ann Mathieu · Production Manager

Judith Vecchione · Producer

Llewellyn M. Smith · Associate Producer

Editing

Daniel Eisenberg · Editor

Victoria Garvin · Assistant Editor