This video guide is aligned to Episode 5 of the PBS series "The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross". This episode, titled "Rise!" covers 1940-1968 and touches on many well-known civil rights leaders such s Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, Ruby Bridges, and Rosa Parks, but it also goes into many lesser-known figures that are often bypassed in the textbooks, such as James Meredith, Ella Baker, and Paul Robeson.