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Eyes on the prize America's civil rights years volume program 1
Language
English
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Covers two events that helped to focus the nation's attention on the rights of black Americans: the 1955 lynching in Mississippi of 14-year-old Emmett Till and the 1955-56 Montgomery, Ala. boycott. Also shows southern race relations at mid-century and witnesses the awakening of individuals to their own courage and power.
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Eyes on the prize America's civil rights years volume program 2
Language
English
Description
Covers stories detailing the confrontation between state and federal governments over enforcement of the law of equality, which marked an escalation in the struggle for civil rights from which there was no turning back.
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Eyes on the prize America's civil rights years volume program 3
Language
English
Description
Covers lunch counter sit-ins and their impact on the Kennedy and Nixon presidential race of 1960, the formation of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee, and the freedom rides of 1961.
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Eyes on the prize America's civil rights years volume program 4
Language
English
Description
Visits the cities where the tactics of nonviolent protest met both success and failure. Also covers the high point of those emotional times, the 1963 March on Washington, and the violence that followed.
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English
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A collection of six Black history films based off of children's books all gathered in one "binge box" for a spectacular movie night.
Follow Chester! A College Football Team Fights Racism and Makes History: Chester Pierce broke racial barriers by joining his college football team during segregation in the United States.
Let the Children March: In 1963 Birmingham, Alabama, thousands of African-American children volunteered to march for their civil...
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Eyes on the prize America's civil rights years volume program 6
Language
English
Description
When civil rights protesters marching from Selma to Montogomery, Alabama were assaulted by police, national outrage over the brutality led to President Johnson providing the protection of federal troops, and ultimately to the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
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English
Description
Details a little-known chapter in civil rights history. Choreographed by Samuel Wilbert Tucker, a black attorney from Alexdandria, Virginia, five young men in 1939 staged what is believed to be the nation's first sit-in at a public library just outside Washington, D.C. They were protesting the "separate, but equal" treatment of African-Americans. Includes a dramatization of the 1939 sit-in.
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Español
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On August 28, 1963, more than 200,000 people gathered in Washington, D.C., to demand equal rights for all races. It was there that Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his "I Have a Dream" speech, and it was this peaceful protest that spurred the momentous civil rights laws of the mid-1960s.
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English
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The film traces the Civil Rights Movement from the 1963 March on Washington to the summer of 2020, focusing on anti-Black violence motivating decades of activism. This historical context places a new perspective on Dr. King's statement that the future of the Civil Rights Movement would be the struggle for genuine equality, a much more difficult struggle.
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