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Lyndon Johnson ran as a peace candidate while considering escalating conflict in Vietnam.

Popular sitcoms in the 1960s reflected societal concerns about women's changing roles.

Premiering January 14, 2014. Chapter 1 of "1964" - the year that changed America.

The 1964 Civil Rights Act sought to dismantle legal and social segregation in the South.

William Lloyd Garrison published the first issue of "The Liberator" on January 1, 1831.

On a trip to Kentucky in 1833, Harriet Beecher witnessed slavery up close.

In 1833, Frederick Douglass was sent to a slave breaker to be beaten back into submission.

After reading reports of pro-slavery violence, Angelina Grimke began to speak out publicly

Watch "Freedom Summer" on American Experience PBS on June 24, 2014.

Nikita Khrushchev's son, Sergei, reflects on his father's 1959 trip to America.

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