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Collection Summary. The Eyes on the Prize Interviews Collection consists of over 300 raw footage interviews conducted with participants in the American Civil Rights movement for the acclaimed documentary series Eyes on the Prize.Produced by documentarian Henry Hampton and his company, Blackside Inc., the series was released in two parts: Eyes on the Prize: America’s Civil Rights Years, 1954 ...
Season 34. Season thirty-four of the television program American Experience aired on the PBS network in the United States on February 7, 2022 and concluded on November 15, 2022. The season contained six new episodes and began with the film Riveted: The History of Jeans .
Print. Eyes on the Prize is an award-winning 14-hour television series produced by Blackside and narrated by Julian Bond. Through contemporary interviews and historical footage, the series covers all of the major events of the civil rights movement from 1954-1985. Series topics range from the murder of Emmett Till and the Montgomery Bus Boycott ...
American Experience season 33. American Experience. season 33. Season thirty-three of the television program American Experience aired on the PBS network in the United States on January 11, 2021 and concluded on September 28, 2021. The season contained eight new episodes and began with the film The Codebreaker .
Interview with Coretta Scott King conducted for Eyes on the Prize in 1985. King discusses moving to Montgomery, Alabama with her husband, Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., and the tension that built up to the Montgomery Bus Boycott. She also discusses the federal injunction barring civil rights protests in Albany, Georgia, and the Selma campaign. She also says the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was ...
APA: Eyes on the prize II--America at the racial crossroads, 1965-mid 1980s. Boston, MA: Film and Media Archive, Washington University in St. Louis, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC.
Eyes on the Prize II – The Promised Land 1967-68 (1990) Producer, director and writer, with Jacqueline Shearer, of two films in the multi-part civil rights history series. "The Promised Land: 1967-68," about Dr. Martin Luther King's last year, and "The Keys to the Kingdom: 1972-78", about school desegregation in Boston, the election of Atlanta's first black mayor, and affirmative action.
