He Risked His Life Infiltrating Lynch Mobs

The most famous activist you've never heard of. While many consider the birth of the civil rights movement to be 1955, when Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on an Alabama bus, the stage had been set decades before by activists of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People...

114 min - War & Military - American Experience

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