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  4. Eyes on the Prize - Season 1

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Eyes on the Prize - Season 1

Series: Eyes on the Prize
4.5
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Episodes
6
Rating
TVPG
Year
1987
Language
English
Publisher
PBS

About

A propulsive narrative chronicling the fight for racial justice in America, from Obama's election to Black Lives Matter, highlighting the heroic individuals who sparked change.

Related Subjects

  • History

Episodes

1. Awakenings - 1954-1956

1h

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Individual 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 to give up her bus seat to a white man in Alabama.

2. Fighting Back - 1957-1962

1h

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States' 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 segregation at the University of Mississippi.

3. Ain't Scared of Your Jails - 1960-1961

1h

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Black 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 buses, but they are brutally attacked as they travel.

4. No Easy Walk - 1961-1963

1h

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The triumphant March on Washington, D.C., under Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s leadership, shows a mounting national support for civil rights. President John F. Kennedy proposes the Civil Rights Act.

5. Mississippi: Is This America? - 1963-1964

1h

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Mississippi's civil rights movement becomes an American concern when college students travel south to help register black voters and three activists are murdered. The Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party challenges the regular delegation.

6. Bridge to Freedom - 1965

1h

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A 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 rights leaders know they have new challenges ahead.

Extended Details

  • SeriesEyes on the Prize
  • Closed CaptionsEnglish

Artists

Judith VecchioneDirector
Henry HamptonProducer
Terry Kay RockefellerProducer
Julian BondActor