Twitter Email. Rosa Parks riding city bus on Dec. Board of Education of Topeka, U. Elizabeth Eckford is one of the Little Rock Nine. White women and child hold up a sign in support of segregation: "Cursed is the man who integrates. Holy Bible Jeremiah Black college students sit-in at a lunch counter, Woolworth's in Greensboro, N. A year-old Civil Rights demonstrator is attacked by a police dog in Birmingham, Ala. This photo led the front page of the next day's New York Times.
Fred Hampton's body carried by police. Hampton was an activist in the Black Panther Party. He was killed in a raid in December , Chicago,Ill. Boston protest, A white man uses an American flag as a weapon against Black men. Photos Top cast Edit. Julian Bond Narrator as Narrator. Coretta Scott King Self as Self.
John Lewis Self as Self. Vivian Self as Self. Andrew Young Self as Self. Burke Marshall Self as Self. Jesse Jackson Self as Self. Ralph Abernathy Self as Self. Unita Blackwell Self as Self. Stokely Carmichael Self as Self. Harry Belafonte Self as Self. Nancy Jefferson Self as Self.
Melvin Bailey Self as Self. James Bevel Self as Self. Myrlie Evers Self as Self. James Forman Self as Self. Ernest Green Self as Self. James Hicks Self as Self. Henry Hampton. More like this. 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.
It is the story of the people 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. Through contemporary interviews and historical footage, the series, which recounts the fight to end decades of discrimination and segregation, 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. Narrated by political leader and civil rights activist Julian Bond Follow our Eyes on the Prize Viewing Guide to get to know the series through an episode-by-episode timeline.
EYES ON THE PRIZE is 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.
Season 2 mid '80s. After a decade-long cry for justice, a new sound is heard in the Civil Rights Movement: the call for power. Malcolm X takes an eloquent nationalism to urban streets as a younger generation of Black leaders listens. Martin Luther King, Jr. In Detroit, a police raid in a Black neighborhood sparks an uprising, leaving 43 people dead.
The Kerner Commission finds that America is becoming "two societies, one black, one white, separate and unequal" - President Lyndon Johnson ignores the report. The call for Black Power takes various forms across communities in Black America.
The Black Panther Party, armed with books, programs, and guns, is born in Oakland. Substandard teaching practices prompt parents to gain control of a school district but lead them to a showdown with New York City's teachers' union. King opposes the war in Vietnam. In the midst of organizing, King detours to support striking sanitation workers in Memphis, where he is assassinated. His death and the failure of his final campaign mark the end of a major stream of the movement.
A renewed push for unity galvanizes Black America.
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