History : Eyes On The Prize Parts 1-5: Awakenings 1954-1964 Americas Civil Rights Movement

Eyes On The Prize Parts 1-5: Awakenings 1954-1964 Americas Civil Rights Movement

Awakenings (1954-1956): Focuses on the Mississippi lynching of 14-year-old Emmett Till and the subsequent trial; Rosa Parks and the Montgomery bus boycott; the formation of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference; and the entry of ordinary citizens and local leaders into the black struggle for freedom.



(Part 2) Fighting Back 1957–1962 chronicles the school desegregation efforts at Central High School by the Little Rock Nine in Arkansas and by James Meredith .



(Part 3) Ain't Scared of Your Jails (1960-1961): Chronicles the formation of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and the participation of young people and college students in lunch counter sit-ins and Freedom Rides, as well as the Civil Rights Movement's influence on the 1960 presidential campaign.



(Part 4) No Easy Walk (1961-1963) America's Civil Rights Years: Examines the emergence of mass demonstrations and marches as a powerful form of protest by documenting the anti-segregation march of Alabama school children against the spray of fire hoses and the historic 1963 March on Washington, DC. The episode highlights the personal risks taken by ordinary citizens, particularly during the Mississippi voting rights campaign and in Freedom Summer 1964, when three young civil rights workers were murdered.



(Part 5) Mississippi: Is This America? (1962-1964) Focuses on the extraordinary personal risks that citizens faced as they assumed responsibility for social change, particularly during the 1962-64 voting rights campaign in Mississippi. The state became a testing ground of constitutional principles as civil rights activists concentrated their energies on the right to vote. White resistance to the sharing of political power clashed with the strong determination of movement leaders to bring Mississippi blacks to the ballot box. In Freedom Summer 1964, tension between white resistance and civil rights activists reached its height in the tragic murder of three young civil rights workers.



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