Documentary shows civil rights-era history of Sacramento1 min read
Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe civil rights movement of the 1960s is often viewed as centralized in the South, but blacks in Sacramento faced similar challenges, and a KVIE documentary tells those stories.
“It was just a really horrific time in Sacramento,” said Bryan Shadden, a producer at KVIE who worked on the film, “African Americans in California’s Heartland: The Civil Rights Era.”
The documentary first aired four years ago, but is being shown again Feb. 17 to coincide with Black History Month.
Shadden worked on a story about busing African-American students out of Oak Park after Stanford Junior High School burned in 1963.
