A short biography of Marcus Garvey, Jamaican born activist famous in the early Civil Rights Movement for his effects to uplift black communities throughout the Americas. His calls for a return of people of African descent to Africa and ideas on separatism had profound influence on radical black movements.

A short biography of W.E.B Du Bois, one of the most influential African-American intellectuals and a leading figure of the early Civil Rights Movement. He was a leading figure of the Niagara movement and a co-founder of the NAACP.

Rosa Parks leads a peaceful defiance that prompted the 1955 bus boycott in Montgomery, Alabama.

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Ralph Abernathy reflect while in a jail cell after taking part in Civil Rights protests.

This clip explains the impact of the Montgomery Bus Boycott on the Civil Rights Movement as well as Rosa Parks' role in the boycott. It mentions that the story behind the boycott is more complex, as Rosa Parks wasn't first black person to resist bus segregation. Rather, there were several other women arrested for the same offense in the last 12 months, one of them being 15-year-old Claudette Colvin.