The King years: historic moments in the civil rights movement

The Montgomery Bus Boycott: Martin Luther King's first public address, 1955

Sit-ins and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), 1960

Freedom rides I: the Nashville initiative, 1961

Freedom rides II: MLK, the Kennedys, and national politics, 1961

Bob Moses, SNCC, and Mississippi, 1960-63

A national firestorm from Birmingham, 1963

The March on Washington, 1963

Birmingham church bombing, 1963

Freedom summer, 1964

Party realignment: the cow palace and Atlantic City, 1964

King, J. Edgar Hoover, and the Nobel Peace Prize, 1964

Crossroads in Selma, 1965

Crossroads in Viet Nam: MLK and LBJ, 1965

Nonviolence goes north: King in Chicago, 1966

Black power, 1966

Race and war: King at the Riverside Church, 1967

Poverty: the last crusade, 1967-68

Requiem in Memphis, 1968

Epilogue: looking back.