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IN PERFORMANCE AT THE WHITE HOUSE: A Celebration of Music From the Civil Rights Movement

IN PERFORMANCE AT THE WHITE HOUSE: A Celebration of Music From the Civil Rights Movement

Monday, January 16 at 10 p.m. — President and Mrs. Obama host a concert in the White House East Room in honor of Black History Month.

AMERICAN EXPERIENCE: Freedom Riders

AMERICAN EXPERIENCE: Freedom Riders

Tuesday, December 6 at 7:30 p.m. — From May until November 1961, more than 400 ordinary Americans risked their lives to challenge segregation in the the Deep South.

AMERICAN EXPERIENCE: Soundtrack for a Revolution

AMERICAN EXPERIENCE: Soundtrack for a Revolution

Monday, May 9 at 9 p.m. — The story of the American civil rights movement as heard through its powerful music.

AMERICAN EXPERIENCE: Stonewall Uprising

AMERICAN EXPERIENCE: Stonewall Uprising

Monday, April 25 at 9 p.m. — When gay bar Stonewall Inn was raided in 1969, gay men and women did something they had not done before: they fought back.

AMERICAN EXPERIENCE: Roads to Memphis

AMERICAN EXPERIENCE: Roads to Memphis

Monday, May 3 at 9 p.m. — Tells the wildly disparate yet fatefully entwined stories of an assassin, James Earl Ray, and his target, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.