Eyes on the Prize - Awakenings 1954-1956: Eyes on the Prize is an
award-winning 14-hour television series produced by Blackside and
narrated by Julian Bond. Through contemporary interviews and historical
footage, the series covers all of the major events of the civil rights
movement from 1954-1985.
Fighting Back
Eyes on the Prize - Fighting Back 1957-1962: Eyes on the Prize is
an award-winning 14-hour television series produced by Blackside and
narrated by Julian Bond. Through contemporary interviews and historical
footage, the series covers all of the major events of the civil rights
movement from 1954-1985.
Ain’t Scared of Your Jails Pt.1
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.
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. Presidents John F. Kennedy proposes the Civil Rights Act.
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.
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.
After a decade-long cry for justice, a new sound is heard in the civil rights movement: the insistent call for power. Malcolm X takes an eloquent nationalism to urban streets as a younger generation of black leaders listens. In the South, Stokley Carmichael and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) move from "Freedom Now" to "Black Power!" as the fabric of the traditional movement changes.
Two Societies Pt. 1
Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) come north to help Chicago's civil rights leaders in their nonviolent struggle against segregated housing. Their efforts pit them against Chicago's powerful mayor, Richard Daley. When a series of marches through all-white neighborhoods draws violence, King and Daley negotiate with mixed results. In Detroit, a police raid in a black neighborhood sparks an urban uprising that lasts five days, leaving 43 people dead. The Kerner Commission finds that America is becoming "two societies, one black, one white, separate and unequal." President Lyndon Johnson, who appointed the commission, ignores the report.
