PBS – American Experience: Eyes On The Prize – #3/14 – Ain’t Scared of Your Jails 1960–1961

Given the Trump years, the decisions being handed down by SCOTUS, plus the shootings of blacks and whites , I have reposted this series

About this episode from TV Guide

A Feb. 1, 1960 sit-in by four blacks who were refused service at a Greensboro, N.C., lunch counter, which launched a nationwide movement among black collegians. Also: the formation of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, some of whose members participated in CORE-sponsored Freedom Rides to protest discrimination by bus lines.

About this series

Wikipedia

Eyes on the Prize is an American television series and 14-part documentary about the Civil Rights Movement in the United States. The documentary originally aired on the PBS network and also aired in the United Kingdom on BBC2. Created and executive produced by Henry Hampton at the film production company Blackside and narrated by Julian Bond, the series uses archival footage, stills and interviews of participants and opponents of the movement. The title of the series is derived from the folk song “Keep Your Eyes on the Prize,” which is used in each episode as the opening theme music.

A total of 14 episodes of Eyes on the Prize were produced in two separate parts. The first part, Eyes on the Prize: America’s Civil Rights Years 1954–1965, chronicles the time period between the United States Supreme Court ruling Brown v. Board of Education (1954) to the Selma to Montgomery marches of 1965. It consists of six episodes, which premiered on January 21, 1987 and concluded on February 25, 1987. The second part, Eyes on the Prize II: America at the Racial Crossroads 1965–1985, chronicles the time period between the national emergence of Malcolm X during 1964 to the 1983 election of Harold Washington as the first African-American mayor of Chicago. It consists of eight episodes, which aired on January 15, 1990 and ended on March 5, 1990, and was made widely available to educators on VHS tape. All 14 hours were re-released on DVD in 2006 by PBS. MORE AT LINK