The BEST episodes written by Stanley Nelson
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#1 - Freedom Summer
American Experience - Season 26 - Episode 9
In the summer of 1964, more than 700 students join with organizers and local blacks to canvas for voter registration, create Freedom Schools and establish the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party.
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#2 - Jesse Owens
American Experience - Season 24 - Episode 7
Despite Jesse Owens' remarkable victories in the face of Nazi racism at the 1936 Berlin Olympics, the athlete struggled to find a place for himself in a United States that was still wrestling to overcome its own deeply entrenched bias.
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#3 - Freedom Riders
American Experience - Season 23 - Episode 15
The story behind a courageous band of civil rights activists called Freedom Riders who in 1961 challenged segregation in the American South.