50 Years Later: Civil Rights
CBS News looks back at the fight against segregation, and the continuing struggle for equal rights
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Analyzing the long march to equality
"CBS News: 50 Years Later, Civil Rights" panelists discuss with moderator Bob Schieffer the struggle for equal rights, the state of race in America, and the future of equality
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"50 Years Later, Civil Rights": Watch the complete webcast
A half-century after President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the landmark Civil Rights Act, CBS News' chief Washington correspondent Bob Schieffer hosted a symposium on Americans' historic fight against segregation, and the continuing struggle for equal rights for all. Among Schieffer's guests discussing racism in the United States and the future of equality are relatives of three civil rights workers murdered in Mississippi in 1964; advocates Harry Belafonte, Rep. John Lewis and Evan Wolfson; historian Taylor Branch; CBS Sports broadcaster James Brown; actors Whoopi Goldberg and Rosie Perez; and Brooklyn Nets player Jason Collins.
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"50 Years Later, Civil Rights": The future of civil rights in America
Host Bob Schieffer discusses the civil rights challenges of the next 50 years as they pertain to race, gender, and the LGBTQ community, with activist Harry Belafonte, Brooklyn Nets player Jason Collins, and "Do the Right Thing" actress Rosie Perez
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"50 Years Later, Civil Rights": How has the equal rights movement evolved?
The civil rights movement started with race; where does it stand in the 21st century? Host Bob Schieffer talks to CBS Sports commentator James Brown, actress/activist Whoopi Goldberg, and same-sex marriage advocate Evan Wolfson on the climate of change.
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"50 Years Later, Civil Rights": The depths of segregation
As Walter Cronkite described it, the South in 1964 was "a deeply isolated civilization that hadn't changed its mind in 200 years." Host Bob Schieffer examines the political, social and legal aspects of segregation with civil rights activist Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.) and Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Taylor Branch.
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Results of CBS News audience polling on civil rights
Microsoft Bing Pulse technology tracks viewers' responses to panel on civil rights in America
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"50 Years Later, Civil Rights": Risking lives for equal rights
A generation ago, the Jim Crow laws of the South deeply divided communities, creating a climate of fear and violence. Host Bob Schieffer talks to relatives of three civil rights activists who were killed in Mississippi in 1964 while working to register blacks to vote.
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Relics of America's civil rights movement
Objects from the collections of the Smithsonian Institution provide gateways into the larger narrative of our nation
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"CBS News: 50 Years, Civil Rights": Watch and participate
Host Bob Schieffer invites viewers to participate in a live civil rights symposium on CBSNews.com and the Smithsonian Channel July 24
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Joe Biden: Voter ID laws aim to "repress minority turnout"
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Bob Schieffer hosts "CBS News: 50 Years Later, Civil Rights" live symposium
This month marks the 50th anniversary of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The landmark legislation signed by President Lyndon Johnson outlawed discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex or national origin. Bob Schieffer, who will host "CBS News: 50 Years Later, Civil Rights" tonight, joins the "CBS This Morning" co-hosts to preview the special symposium.
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Lonnie Bunch on his father's "gentlemanly defiance" of Jim Crow
Founding director, Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture
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Bill Whitaker and his father's experience at the March on Washington
CBS News correspondent, "60 Minutes"
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Sam Moore: Did Martin Luther King Jr. die in vain?
Singer-songwriter
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Sherrilyn Ifill on Thurgood Marshall
President, Director-Counsel of NAACP's Legal Defense and Educational Fund (LDF)
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Pearl Cleage: It is all one struggle
Author, playwright
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Karla Mosley on campaigning for change
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Jill Schlesinger on living as an out and proud American
CBS News senior business analyst, radio host
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Kristoff St. John on "startling letters of hate and discontent"
Actor, "The Young and the Restless"
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Bill Richardson on Cesar Chavez
Former N.M. Governor, Ambassador to the United Nations, Secretary of Energy; founder, Richardson Center for Global Engagement
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Russell Simmons: Young people yearn for a more just America
Entrepreneur, co-founder of Def Jam Recordings; Chairman, Board of Directors, the Foundation for Ethnic Understanding
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Lee Woodruff: Moving the needle on race relations
Author, co-founder, Bob Woodruff Foundation; contributor, "CBS This Morning"
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Majora Carter on Fannie Lou Hamer
Founder, Sustainable South Bronx; environmental justice advocate, public radio host
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Obama signs act to protect LGBT federal contractors
President Obama signed an executive order protecting gay and transgender federal contractors from discrimination, the latest in his effort to act on Democratic-supported issues he says are being ignored by the Republican-led House.
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Daniel Dae Kim on Asian-American civil rights heroes
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"50 Years Later, Civil Rights": Watch the complete webcast
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Analyzing the long march to equality
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"50 Years Later, Civil Rights": The depths of segregation
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"50 Years Later, Civil Rights": How has the equal rights movement evolved?
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"50 Years Later, Civil Rights": Risking lives for equal rights
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"50 Years Later, Civil Rights": The future of civil rights in America
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"CBS News: 50 Years Later, Civil Rights": Results of audience polling
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Panelists for "CBS News: 50 Years Later, Civil Rights"
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Bob Schieffer hosts "CBS News: 50 Years Later, Civil Rights" live symposium
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CBS Live Experiences to explore America's civil rights struggle
Key Figures In Civil Rights
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MLK: A riot is the language of the unheard
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Rosa Parks' legacy
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March on Washington: Civil rights activists share their memories
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The death of Medgar Evers
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Leaders of the civil rights movement
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Rep. John Lewis remembers King, Selma, March on Washington
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