Eyes on the Prize

1987
5.0
3 reviews
TV-PG
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Eyes on the Prize - season 1 episodes (6)

1 Awakenings - 1954-1956
1/21/87
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
1/28/87
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
2/4/87
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
2/11/87
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
2/18/87
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
2/25/87
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.

About this show

Eyes on the Prize tells 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.

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5.0
3 reviews
deborah elliott
December 20, 2021
Awe inspiring, inspirational series! Where did these brave activists get their courage? Powerful!
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only bygrace Bird
January 1, 2022
Excellent
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Keith Finglas
March 23, 2022
Where are the other episodes, from 7-18
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