Learning on ScreenEyes on the Prize
- Synopsis
- The story of the US civil rights movement from 1954 to 1965, when the struggle for social justice became a mass movement that transformed American society. The films use news footage and interviews to explore such topics as race relations in the South at mid-century, educational desegretaion, the rise of the mass movement, and the struggle for voting rights.
1: Examines the two events that helped focus the nation’s attention on the right of black Americans - the lynching of Emmett Till and the 1955/56 Montgomery, Alabama, boycott.
2: Examines the law as a tool for both change and resistance to change, particularly in the field of education.
3: Depicts the changing focus of black protests during the early 1960s through court challenges to specific laws.
4: Shows how three cities indelibly linked with the civil rights movement - Albany, Georgia; Birmingham, Alabama; and Washington, DC - tested the strategy of its beliefs and convictions during this period.
5: How black citizens who were denied the right to voty by laws and the right of history. Economic pressure and terror intervened to demand a place in the political process.
6: Ten years after Rosa Parks refused to yield her seat on a Montgomery bus to a white man and 20 years after the Supreme Court decreed that ‘separate but equal’ was unconstitutional, black Americans were still fighting. - Language
- English
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Video; Videocassette. VHS. b&w/col. 6 x 60 min.
- Year of production
- 1988
- Availability
- Sale; 1995 sale: £22.99 each part, £122.00 set (inc. VAT +p&p)
- Notes
- Broadcast on BBC2 from 10/1/88.
- Subjects
- History
- Keywords
- civil rights movements; United States of America
Credits
- Producer
- Orlando Bagwell
- Writer
- Steve Fayer
Sections
- Title
- Awakening, The (1954-56)
- Synopsis
- 1: Examines the two events that helped focus the nation's attention on the right of black Americans - the lynching of Emmett Till and the 1955/56 Montgomery, Alabama, boycott.
- Title
- Fighting back (1957-62
- Synopsis
- 2: Examines the law as a tool for both change and resistance to change, particularly in the field of education.
- Title
- Ain’t scared of your jails (1960-61)
- Synopsis
- 3: Depicts the changing focus of black protests during the early 1960s through court challenges to specific laws.
- Title
- No easy walk (1962-66)
- Synopsis
- 4: Shows how three cities indelibly linked with the civil rights movement - Albany, Georgia; Birmingham, Alabama; and Washington, DC - tested the strategy of its beliefs and convictions during this period.
- Title
- Mississippi - is this America? (1962-65)
- Synopsis
- 5: How black citizens who were denied the right to voty by laws and the right of history. Economic pressure and terror intervened to demand a place in the political process.
- Title
- Bridge to freedom (1965)
- Synopsis
- 6: Ten years after Rosa Parks refused to yield her seat on a Montgomery bus to a white man and 20 years after the Supreme Court decreed that 'separate but equal' was unconstitutional, black Americans were still fighting.
Production Company
- Name
Blackside Inc.
Distributor
- Name
African Video Centre
- info@africanvideocentre.co.uk
- Web
- http://www.africanvideocentre.co.uk External site opens in new window
- Phone
- 020 7732 5460
- Fax
- 020 7732 6897
- Address
- 92 Peckham High Street
London
SE15 5ED
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