Eyes on the Prize - Season 1

Eyes on the Prize - Season 1

Season 1

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.
Network
Episodes6
DatesJan. 21, 1987 - Feb. 25, 1987
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Episodes

Awakenings, 1954-1956
Season 1Episode 160 min

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
Fighting Back, 1957-1962
Season 1Episode 260 min

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
Ain't Scared of Your Jails, 1960-1961
Season 1Episode 360 min

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
No Easy Walk 1962-1966
Season 1Episode 460 min

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
Mississippi, Is This America, 1962-1964
Season 1Episode 560 min

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
Bridge to Freedom,1965
Season 1Episode 660 min

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

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