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Eyes on the Prize Season 1 Episodes
Season 1 Episode Guide
6 Episodes 1987 - 1987
Episode 1
Awakenings, 1954-1956
Wed, Jan 21, 1987 60 mins
"Awakenings 1954-56" profiles Mose Wright, a black Mississippian who testified against two white men accused of murder; and Rosa Parks, who refused to give up her seat to a white person on Dec. 1, 1955 in Montgomery, Ala. The incident sparked a bus boycott that lasted for one year.
Episode 2
Fighting Back, 1957-1962
Wed, Jan 28, 1987 60 mins
Conflicts sparked by the Supreme Court's 1955 ruling that schools should be integrated with "all deliberate speed." Included: James Meredith's efforts to enroll at the University of Mississippi in 1962; and newsreel comments by former Mississippi senator James Eastland. Narrator: Julian Bond.
Episode 3
Ain't Scared of Your Jails, 1960-1961
Wed, Feb 4, 1987 60 mins
A Feb. 1, 1960 sit-in by four blacks who were refused service at a Greensboro, N.C., lunch counter, which launched a nationwide movement among black collegians. Also: the formation of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, some of whose members participated in CORE-sponsored Freedom Rides to protest discrimination by bus lines.
Episode 4
No Easy Walk, 1962-1966
Wed, Feb 11, 1987 60 mins
The rise of mass demonstrations in the civil-rights movement in the early 1960s---the largest of which was the march on Washington on Aug. 28, 1963. On that day, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his "I Have a Dream" speech. Also: children's marches in Birmingham, Ala. Narrator: Julian Bond.
Episode 5
Mississippi: Is This America? 1963-1964
Mon, Feb 1, 2016 60 mins
The events of 1963 and '64, when Mississippi became the battleground of the civil-rights movement. Relying on sit-ins, business boycotts and marches, blacks found their efforts thwarted by white supremacists. Included: the 1963 assassination of Medgar Evers; and the 1964 black voter-registration drive.
Episode 6
Bridge to Freedom 1965
Wed, Feb 25, 1987 60 mins
"Bridge to Freedom 1965" recalls the historic march for voting rights from Selma to Montgomery, Ala., on March 21, 1965. Included: comments by former Selma sheriff Jim Clark, former Alabama governor George Wallace and Atlanta mayor Andrew Young.
