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Film DescriptionProduced 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. Winner of numerous 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. Eyes on the Prize recounts the fight to end decades of discrimination and segregation. It is the story of the people — young and old, male and female, northern and southern — who, compelled by a meeting of conscience and circumstance, worked to eradicate a world where whites and blacks could not go to the same school, ride the same bus, vote in the same election, or participate equally in society. It was a world in which peaceful demonstrators were met with resistance and brutality — in short, a reality that is now nearly incomprehensible to many young Americans. 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. The driving force behind Eyes on the Prize and Blackside, Henry Hampton (1940-1998) won numerous awards for this landmark series including the duPont-Columbia Gold Baton, the Peabody Award, and Academy Award nominations. He set out to share his vision of what he called "the remarkable human drama that was the Civil Rights Movement" through the Eyes on the Prizedocumentary and a book of the same title by Juan Williams. In recent years, a number of key figures who appear in the films (including the Reverend Ralph Abernathy, a leader of the Montgomery bus boycott; Coretta Scott King, wife of slain civil rights leader Martin Luther King, and an activist in her own right; Kwame Ture, also known as Stokely Carmichael, leader of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee; and George Wallace, the 1960s Alabama governor who resisted integration) have died, making this record of their testimony all the more valuable. Programs in the series: Awakenings (1954-1956) Fighting Back (1957-1962) Ain't Scared of Your Jails (1960-1961) No Easy Walk (1961-1963) Mississippi: Is This America? (1963-1964) Bridge to Freedom (1965) The Time Has Come (1964-66) Two Societies (1965-68) Power! (1966-68) Power! (1966-68) The Promised Land (1967-68) Ain't Gonna Shuffle No More (1964-72) A Nation of Law? (1968-71) The Keys to the
Kingdom (1974-80) Back to the Movement (1979-mid 80s) Martin Luther King stakes out new ground for himself and the rapidly fragmenting civil rights movement. One year before his death, he publicly opposes the war in Vietnam. His Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) embarks on an ambitious Poor People's Campaign. In the midst of political organizing, King detours to support striking sanitation workers in Memphis, where he is assassinated. King's death and the failure of his final campaign mark the end of a major stream of the movement. Ain't Gonna Shuffle No More (1964-72) A Nation of Law? (1968-71) The Keys to the Kingdom (1974-80) Back to the Movement (1979-mid 80s) CreditsThe landmark series Eyes on the Prize, produced by Blackside and first broadcast in 1987, is a special presentation of the award-winning PBS history series, American Experience. Access the complete program credits here Awakenings (1954-1956) Fighting Back (1957-1962) Ain't Scared of Your Jails (1960-1961) No Easy Walk (1961-1963) Mississippi: Is This America? (1963-1964) Bridge to Freedom (1965) The Time Has Come
(1964-66) Two Societies (1965-68) Power! (1966-68) The Promised Land (1967-68) Ain't Gonna Shuffle No More (1964-72) A Nation of Law? (1968-71) The Keys to the Kingdom
(1974-80) Back to the Movement (1979-mid 80s) TranscriptThe landmark series Eyes on the Prize, produced by Blackside and first broadcast in 1987, is a special presentation of the award-winning PBS history series, American Experience. Access the complete program transcripts here Awakenings (1954-1956) Fighting Back (1957-1962) Ain't Scared of Your Jails (1960-1961) No Easy Walk (1961-1963) Mississippi: Is This America? (1963-1964) Bridge
to Freedom (1965) The Time Has Come (1964-66) Two Societies (1965-68) Power! (1966-68) The Promised Land (1967-68) Ain't Gonna Shuffle No
More (1964-72) A Nation of Law? (1968-71) The Keys to the Kingdom (1974-80) Back to the Movement (1979-mid 80s) More Ways to WatchAdditional funding for Eyes On The Prive provided byWhat items received a boost in sales with the popularity of ragtime music?By the early 1900s ragtime flooded the music publishing industry. The popularity and demand for ragtime also boosted sale of pianos and greatly swelled the ranks of the recording industry.
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