Eyes on the prize : America's Civil Rights years.
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Bond, Julian, 1940-2015, film director.
Bagwell, Orlando, film director.
PBS (Firm), Distributor
Kanopy (Firm), Distributor
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[San Francisco, California, USA] : PBS, 1990., Kanopy Streaming, 2017.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (790 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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English

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Originally produced by PBS in 1990.
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Produced by Blackside, 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. Winner of numerous Emmy Awards, a George Foster Peabody Award, an International Documentary Award, and a Television Critics Association Award, Eyes on the Prize is the most critically acclaimed documentary on civil rights in America. Eyes on the Prize recounts the fight to end decades of discrimination and segregation. It is the story of the people -- young and old, male and female, northern and southern -- 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 -- in short, a reality that is now nearly incomprehensible to many young Americans. Through contemporary interviews and historical footage, Eyes on the Prize 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. Julian Bond, political leader and civil rights activist, narrates. The driving force behind Eyes on the Prize and Blackside, Henry Hampton (1940-1998) won numerous awards for this landmark series including the duPont-Columbia Gold Baton, the Peabody Award, and Academy Award nominations. He set out to share his vision of what he called "the remarkable human drama that was the Civil Rights Movement" through the Eyes on the Prize documentary and a book of the same title by Juan Williams. In recent years, a number of key figures who appear in the films (including the Reverend Ralph Abernathy, a leader of the Montgomery bus boycott; Coretta Scott King, wife of slain civil rights leader Martin Luther King, and an activist in her own right; Kwame Ture, also known as Stokely Carmichael, leader of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee; and George Wallace, the 1960s Alabama governor who resisted integration) have died, making this record of their testimony all the more valuable.
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Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Citations

APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)

Bond, J., & Bagwell, O. (1990). Eyes on the prize: America's Civil Rights years . PBS.

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Bond, Julian, 1940-2015 and Orlando, Bagwell. 1990. Eyes On the Prize: America's Civil Rights Years. PBS.

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Bond, Julian, 1940-2015 and Orlando, Bagwell. Eyes On the Prize: America's Civil Rights Years PBS, 1990.

MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)

Bond, Julian, and Orlando Bagwell. Eyes On the Prize: America's Civil Rights Years PBS, 1990.

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