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Eyes on the prize America's civil rights years volume program 1
Language
English
Description
Covers two events that helped to focus the nation's attention on the rights of black Americans: the 1955 lynching in Mississippi of 14-year-old Emmett Till and the 1955-56 Montgomery, Ala. boycott. Also shows southern race relations at mid-century and witnesses the awakening of individuals to their own courage and power.
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Eyes on the prize America's civil rights years volume program 2
Language
English
Description
Covers stories detailing the confrontation between state and federal governments over enforcement of the law of equality, which marked an escalation in the struggle for civil rights from which there was no turning back.
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Eyes on the prize America's civil rights years volume program 3
Language
English
Description
Covers lunch counter sit-ins and their impact on the Kennedy and Nixon presidential race of 1960, the formation of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee, and the freedom rides of 1961.
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Eyes on the prize America's civil rights years volume program 4
Language
English
Description
Visits the cities where the tactics of nonviolent protest met both success and failure. Also covers the high point of those emotional times, the 1963 March on Washington, and the violence that followed.
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Eyes on the prize America's civil rights years volume program 6
Language
English
Description
When civil rights protesters marching from Selma to Montogomery, Alabama were assaulted by police, national outrage over the brutality led to President Johnson providing the protection of federal troops, and ultimately to the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
Series
Eyes on the prize America's civil rights years volume program 5
Language
English
Description
Starting in 1961, Mississippi became a testing ground of constitutional principles and of the human spirit as the Civil Rights Movement focused its energies on the right to vote.
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