Eyes on the Prize S01E02 · Fighting Back, 1957-1962

Overview

States' rights loyalists and federal authorities collide in the 1957 battle to integrate Little Rock's Central High School, and again in James Meredith's 1962 challenge to segregation at the University of Mississippi. Both times, a Southern governor squares off with a U.S. president, violence erupts -- and integration is carried out.

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1. 1 1. Awakenings, 1954-19561987-01-21 · 1h 0mIndividual acts of courage inspire black Southerners to fight for their rights: Mose Wright testifies against the white men who murdered young Emmett Till, and Rosa Parks refuses t
2. 2 2. Fighting Back, 1957-19621987-01-28 · 1h 0mStates' rights loyalists and federal authorities collide in the 1957 battle to integrate Little Rock's Central High School, and again in James Meredith's 1962 challenge to segregat
3. 3 3. Ain't Scared of Your Jails, 1960-19611987-02-04 · 1h 0mBlack college students take a leadership role in the civil rights movement as lunch counter sit-ins spread across the South. "Freedom Riders" also try to desegregate interstate bus
4. 4 4. No Easy Walk, 1962-19661987-02-11 · 1h 0mThe civil rights movement discovers the power of mass demonstrations as the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. emerges as its most visible leader. Some demonstrations succeed; others fai
5. 5 5. Mississippi, Is This America, 1962-19641987-02-18 · 1h 0mMississippi's grass-roots civil rights movement becomes an American concern when college students travel south to help register black voters and three activists are murdered. The M
6. 6 6. Bridge to Freedom, 19651987-02-25 · 1h 0mA decade of lessons is applied in the climactic and bloody march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama. A major victory is won when the federal Voting Rights Bill passes, but civil rig