A Celebration of Black History

4:11 -- Rep. John Lewis of Georgia, a longtime leader of the civil rights struggle, talks about what bearing witness to the swearing-in of America's first black president means to him personally.

4:37 -- NBC's Brian Williams and Tom Brokaw announce Barack Obama's victory in the 2008 presidential election.

37:14 -- Barack Obama speaks about the role race has played in his presidential campaign, the criticism of Reverend Jeremiah Wright, and his own perspective on the history of race relations in the United States. This is the full, uncut version of the speech.

2:17 -- As the opportunities increase for blacks to attend a wide variety of colleges and universities, attendance at historically black colleges has fallen off. Consequently, black colleges are recruiting whites and hispanics.

1:58 -- The first black man to attend the University of Mississippi returns to campus for an unveiling of a civil rights memorial, and remembers the violence that awaited him there 40 years earlier.

2:58 -- The landmark decision by the U.S. Supreme Court in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka that "separate educational facilities are inherently unequal" is a watershed moment in the civil rights movement.

11:56 -- This NBC documentary charts the lengthy struggle for school desgregation in America, from the Brown v. Board of Education decision in 1954 to the battle to integrate the University of Alabama in 1963.

2:10 -- President George W. Bush visits the "Slave House" in Senegal, invoking America's bloody history in the African slave trade.