A look at the life and career of Michael Landon, who believed television could make life better for everyone, as evidenced by his creation of the show "Highway to Heaven."
Scans Black history from the earliest struggles for allowing free states to enter the union to Reconstruction and white resistance. Profiles such figures as Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman, and Booker T. Washington.
Traces slavery from its earliest days, discusses what the lives of slaves were like, profile Crispus Attucks, Benjamin Banneker, Peter Salem, and Denmark Vesey.