Eyes on the Prize
The definitive story of the Civil Rights era from the point of view of the ordinary men and women whose extraordinary actions launched a movement that changed the fabric of American life, and embodied a struggle whose reverberation continue to be felt today.
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The first season of this Civil Rights documentary chronicles the time period between the United States Supreme Court ruling Brown v. Board of Education in 1954 to the Selma to Montgomery marches of 1965.
1.Awakenings, 1954-1956
21-01-198760mIndividual acts of courage inspire black Southerners to fight for their rights: Mose Wright testifies against the white men who murdered young Emmett Till, and Rosa Parks refuses t...
2.Fighting Back, 1957-1962
28-01-198760mStates' rights loyalists and federal authorities collide in the 1957 battle to integrate Little Rock's Central High School, and again in James Meredith's 1962 challenge to segregat...
3.Ain't Scared of Your Jails, 1960-1961
04-02-198760mBlack college students take a leadership role in the civil rights movement as lunch counter sit-ins spread across the South. "Freedom Riders" also try to desegregate interstate bus...
4.No Easy Walk, 1962-1966
11-02-198760mThe civil rights movement discovers the power of mass demonstrations as the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. emerges as its most visible leader. Some demonstrations succeed; others fai...
5.Mississippi, Is This America, 1962-1964
18-02-198760mMississippi's grass-roots civil rights movement becomes an American concern when college students travel south to help register black voters and three activists are murdered. The M...
6.Bridge to Freedom, 1965
25-02-198760mA decade of lessons is applied in the climactic and bloody march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama. A major victory is won when the federal Voting Rights Bill passes, but civil rig...
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