An original Alabama Public Television production of 75, one-minute American legacy moments commemorating the semiquincentennial in July 2026.

In the Spring of 1962, a group of students from Miles College created and launched a “Selective Buying Campaign” to boycott Birmingham’s downtown merchants. Their success paved the way for Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and the SCLC to choose Birmingham for action in 1963.

Jeremiah Denton battled the North Vietnamese for eight long years as a prisoner in the infamous Hanoi Hilton prison. Family, friends, and fellow POWs help tell the story of this American hero who returned from Vietnam and became a U.S. Senator from Alabama.