. >> reporter: frank papoucheck was a pan am stewardess. these fellow travelers memories are sweet. >> what do you miss about pan am the most? >> the comradery. getting together with the crew and joking and just having a great time. because we had such characters. >> i don't think anybody had the spirit that we had or has left the nostalgia that pan am has both for those who worked for pan am and for our customers at the time. >> this year also marks the anniversary of a movement that changed american history. in may of 1961 a small group of people took a journey into the unknown and in the process joined an epic battle to bring equal rights to african americans in this country. tracy mitchell first brought us this account of the freedom writers. for too long in america, segregation in the south was synonymous. but in the 1960s a new generation armed with a new supreme court decision prohibiting discrimination challenged the status quo. >> this land is composed of two different churches. a white church and a colored church and i've lived cl