History-making moments in the Civil Rights struggle of the last decade pass in review. This documentary, narrated by Ossie Davis, traces the impact of the new Negro militancy on both Negro and white Americans in the years since the momentous Supreme Court school decision of 1954. Footage includes close-ups of a number of the major protagonists on the Civil Rights stage, including Martin Luther King, Medgar Evers, Malcolm X, Rosa Parks, and Presidents Kennedy and Johnson. The mood of the script is set through excerpts from the writings of outstanding Negro poets and authors such as Ralph Ellison, Lorraine Hansberry, and James Baldwin. And there are other words that tell the story of the decade: "In the field of public education the doctrine of "'separate by equal' has no place" (The Supreme Court decision, 1954); "Mississippi is a part of the United States. And whether whites like it or not, I don't plan to live here as a parasite. The things that I don't like I will try to change" (Medgar Evers, Mississippi NAACP Secretary killed by a snipers bullet); "I have a dream..." (Martin Luther King at the March on Washington, August 1963).