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Eyes on the Prize

Eyes on the Prize

★ 7.0/10•1987•1h 0m•TV-PG•Documentary
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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.

StatusEnded
Runtime1h 0m
LanguageEN
First Air DateJan 21, 1987

Episodes

Episode 1 - Awakenings, 1954-1956E160m

Awakenings, 1954-1956

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 Montgomery, Alabama.

Jan 21, 1987

Episode 2 - Fighting Back, 1957-1962E260m

Fighting Back, 1957-1962

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. Both times, a Southern governor squares off with a U.S. president, violence erupts -- and integration is carried out.

Jan 28, 1987

Episode 3 - Ain't Scared of Your Jails, 1960-1961E360m

Ain't Scared of Your Jails, 1960-1961

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.

Feb 4, 1987

Episode 4 - No Easy Walk, 1962-1966E460m

No Easy Walk, 1962-1966

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

Feb 11, 1987

Episode 5 - Mississippi, Is This America, 1962-1964E560m

Mississippi, Is This America, 1962-1964

Mississippi'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 Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party challenges the regular Mississippi delegation at the Democratic Convention in Atlantic City.

Feb 18, 1987

Episode 6 - Bridge to Freedom, 1965E660m

Bridge to Freedom, 1965

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.

Feb 25, 1987

Actors

Julian Bond

Julian Bond

Self - Narrator (voice)

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