| Summary: | The following segments are included:
0:00:00: Martin Luther King Jr. speaking at a press conference on March 4, 1964, to announce that the Southern Christian Leadership Conference's (SCLC) decision to launch a "massive assault on the system of segregation in Alabama" in 1964, with a particular focus on Montgomery. Ralph Abernathy and Fred Shuttlesworth are seated on either side of him. The footage then switches to a mass meeting attended by King, Abernathy, and others, possibly at the First CME Church in Montgomery. (The latter segment is silent.)
0:13:53: Civil rights marches and demonstrations in downtown Montgomery, Alabama, probably in March 1965 (before or after the Selma to Montgomery March). Included are shots of counter-protestors and observers (legislators and staff watching from inside the Capitol); Martin Luther King Jr. with Andrew Young, L. L. Anderson, John Lewis, Solomon Seay, and others at the Federal Building and Morrison's Cafe on Lee Street; Alabama State College students marching to the Capitol (possibly on March 16); King with marchers on Jackson Street (probably on March 17); and demonstrators in front of the Capitol with caskets in a symbolic funeral procession for civil rights demonstrators who had been killed (March 31). All the footage is silent.
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