Name: Eyes On the Prize
Released: 1987-01-21T00:00:00.000Z
Cast: Julian Bond

TV Show · Documentary · History

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.

1987 · 55m

Starring Julian Bond

EPISODE 1

Awakenings 1954-1956

Blacks testify against whites accused of a lynching; an Alabama boycott forces desegregation of buses.
EPISODE 2

Fighting Back

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.
EPISODE 3

Ain't Scared of Your Jails 1960-1961

Black students join in lunch-counter sit-ins; the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee; CORE's Freedom Riders are attacked.
EPISODE 4

No Easy Walk 1961-1963

An Albany, Ga., anti-segregation demonstration; Birmingham, Ala., Children's March; the "I Have a Dream" Washington, D.C., rally.
EPISODE 5

Mississippi: Is This America?: 1962-1964

The right-to-vote battle within Mississippi, focusing on the murder of three civil rights workers and the Freedom Democratic Party.
EPISODE 6

Bridge to Freedom 1965

The civil rights movement begins to splinter despite the success of the 1965 march in Alabama from Selma to Montgomery.