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Eyes on the Prize; Fighting Back (1957-1962)
10/01/1993
DVS on Channel 2 Run Time : 58:25 # 29969
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- Series
- Eyes on the Prize
- Program
- Fighting Back (1957-1962)
- Program Number
102
- Series Description
Broadcast in 1987
Produced by Blackside, 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, and embodied a struggle whose reverberations continue to be felt today.
Through contemporary interviews and historical footage, Eyes on the Prize traces the civil rights movement from the Montgomery bus boycott to the Voting Rights Act; from early acts of individual courage through the flowering of a mass movement and its eventual split into factions. Julian Bond, political leader and civil rights activist, narrates. Series release date: 1987
- Program Description
Broadcast in 1987
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.
- Duration
00:58:23
- Asset Type
Broadcast program
- Media Type
Video
- Genres
- Documentary
- Topics
- History
- Social Issues
- Race and Ethnicity
- Creators
- Hampton, Henry (Series Producer)
- Citation
- Chicago: “Eyes on the Prize; Fighting Back (1957-1962),” 10/01/1993, GBH Archives, accessed June 7, 2023, http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/V_2A9B3A2DA9484DC4BAFB209DCB83299F.
- MLA: “Eyes on the Prize; Fighting Back (1957-1962).” 10/01/1993. GBH Archives. Web. June 7, 2023. <http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/V_2A9B3A2DA9484DC4BAFB209DCB83299F>.
- APA: Eyes on the Prize; Fighting Back (1957-1962). Boston, MA: GBH Archives. Retrieved from http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/V_2A9B3A2DA9484DC4BAFB209DCB83299F