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How the American Civil War finally ended

As the final months of the American Civil War unfolded, we follow how a long-fractured nation moved from brutal fighting ...
Charlton Heston, Sidney Poitier, Burt Lancaster and Lena Horne were among the stars who appeared for MLK and civil rights.
So respected was this civil rights pioneer that, at his funeral in 1961, future Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall served as a pallbearer, and King delivered his invocation. His name is John ...