Eyes On The Prize: Americas Civil Rights Year 1954-1965 Season 1

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The Emmy Award-winning landmark civil rights series, Eyes on the Prize: America’s Civil Rights Years, produced by Blackside, 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. Eyes on the Prize: America’s Civil Rights Years 1954-1965 (Season 1) covers all major events in the civil rights movement from 1954-1965. Episodes include… Awakenings (1954-1956) Fighting Back (1957-1962) Ain’t Scared of Your Jails (1960-1961) No Easy Walk (1961-1963) Mississippi: Is This America? (1962-1964) Bridge to Freedom (1965) Also, includes an interview with Henry Hampton. Winner of six Emmy Awards, a George Foster Peabody Award, an International Documentary Award, and a Television Critics Association Award, Eyes on the Prize is the most critically acclaimed documentary on civil rights in America. Companion book available.