Handouts

Eyes On The Prize

Program 1 AWAKENINGS (1954-56) Two events spark the Civil Rights Movement in the South; the Mississippi lynching of 14-year-old Emmett Till and the Montgomery boycott that forced desegregation.

Program 2 FIGHTING BACK (1957-62) The law is used as a tool for change, through court cases such as the ‘54 Brown vs Board of Education decision (the story of Integration of Little Rock's Central High School in ‘57), and James Meredith's ‘62 challenge to the University of Mississippi's whites-only enrollment policy.

Program 3 AIN'T SCARED OF YOUR JAILS (1060-61) The movement gains momentum, as college students use lunch counter sit-ins in the South, and from the Student Nonviolent Coordinating committee (SNC).

Program 4 NO EASY WALK (1961-63) the Movement embraces the strategy of mass demonstration, and Martin Luther King Jr. emerges as an articulate and charismatic proponent of non-violence.

Program 5 MISSISSIPPI: IS THIS AMERICA? (1962-64) As resistance to the Civil Rights Movement grows in Mississippi, organizers are determined to bring Mississippi blacks into the political process through the vote.

Program 6 BRIDGE TO FREEDOM (1965) Ten years after Rosa parks refused to give up her seat to a white man on a bus in Montgomery, the struggle continues. Millions have joined the Movement and thousands are drawn together in a 55-mile march from Selma to Montgomery protesting racial in justice and demanding the right to vote.

Program 7 THE TIME HAS COME (1964-66) The call for "Black Power" is first heard, as the sense of urgency and anger are generated by black communities in the North. Malcolm X emerges as an articulate and dynamic leader.

Program 8 TWO SOCIETIES (1965-68) A year after Dr. Kings' attempts to bring Southern Movement tactics to the urban North, violence breaks out as black s and police clash on city streets, America appears to be a nation of control.

Program 9 POWER! (1966-68) Blacks take control of their communities using ballot boxes, streets and schools as their platforms. Carl Stokes is elected the first black mayor of a major city, and the Black Panther Party is formed in Oakland.

Program 10 THE PROMISED LAND (1967-68) While organizing a Poor People's Campaign march in Washington, Dr. King is called to help striking workers in Tennessee,. On April 4, 1968, Martin Luther King, Jr. is assassinated in Memphis.

Program 11 AIN'T GONNA SHUFFLE NO MORE (1964-72) Refusing to conform to traditional stereotypes, a new generation begins to define itself, led by greater sense of pride and awareness of its roots, culture and values.

Program 12 A NATION OF LAW? (1968-71) The levels of police brutality and harassment are uncovered; inmates of New York's Attica prison organize a takeover in the effort to publicize intolerable conditions.

Program 13 THE KEYS TO THE KINGDOM (1974-80) The Movement's focus in on "the keys to the kingdom": jobs and education.

Program 14 BACK TO THE MOVEMENT (1979-‘80s) An examination of the social and political changes that occurred in two cities–one northern, one southern-more than a decade after the birth of the Civil Rights Movement.
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