Watch Free At Last? WWII & After
- 2007
- 18 min
World War II created weapons and wealth of unprecedented scale. But soon McCarthy's political witch hunts evoke the Salem witch trials. At the same time, the civil rights movement begins, which reaches its mythic summit with Martin Luther King's "I have a dream" speech, and its political peak with the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act. Political and social conflicts have not stopped; the quest for equality and freedom continues.