Eyes On The Prize: Mississippi: Is This America?(1962-1964)/Bridge To Freedom(1965)
AAS DVD0616C
Mississippi: Is This America?: Mississippi becomes a testing ground of constitutional principles as activists focus on the right to vote. Key participants recount the state's resistance to the movement and the equally strong determinationof black and white organizers to bring blacks into the political process. NAACP leader Medgar Evers is assassinated and three civil rights workers are murdered. Amidst the horror, the Civil Rights Act of 1964 is passed. Bridge to Freedom: Eyewitness accounts by the Rev. C.T. Vivian, Stokley Carmichael, and George Wallace illuminate the events of 1965 focusing on a decade of lessons learned and the role of television in the civil rights movement. Martin Luther King, Jr. receives the Nobel Peace Prize. TV images of troopers gassing demonstrators on a Selma bridge fill living rooms. Twenty-five thousand people march from Selma to Montgomery, helping to ensure the passage of the Voting Right Act of 1965. 60 minutes each section
Eyes On The Prize: Awakenings(1954-1956)/Fighting Back(1957-1962)
AAS DVD0616A
Awakenings: Rare reflections open the door to understanding America's struggle for equality. Curtis Jones (Emmett Till's cousin), Coretta Scott King, and other key witnesses describe the extraordinaryrole ordinary people played in shaping the civil right movement. Mose Wright stands up to racial injustice. Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King, Jr. spark a boycott to desegragate city buses. King and other ministers form the Southern Chirstian Leadership Conference (SCLC) to expand the movement for civil and human rights. Fighting Back: Unforgettable images of the battle lines drawn inthe South come to life through the eyes of those who were on the frontlines-Central High School senior Ernest Gree, University of Mississippi registrar Robert Ellis, U.S. Attorney General Herbert Brownell. See states' rights loyalists and federal authorities collide in the struggle to integrate Central High School. James Meredith and NAACP lawyers face mob violence integrating the University of Mississippi. 60 minutes each section