Eyes on the Prize

America's Civil Rights Years, 1954-1965

The Media Resource Center on the 6^th floor of Milner Library has this six-part series. These are the segments which I used in class:

Episode I: Awakenings (1954-56): Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycotts (December 1955); Index marker: 26:45 (about 5 minutes)
Episode 2: Fighting Back (1957-62): School Desegregation, Little Rock, AR (August 1957); Index marker: 1:00 (3-4 minutes; I skipped over this in class because of a lack of time)
Episode 3: Ain't Scared of Your Jails (1960-61): Greensboro, NC Lunch Counter Sit-ins (February 1960); Index marker: 00:50 (2 minutes, thought the next 10 minutes are also worthwhile)
Episode 4: No Easy Walk (1962-66): March on Washington and Martin Luther King, Jr.'s "I have a dream" speech (August 28, 1963); Index marker: 43:20-51:00
Episode 5: Mississippi: Is This America? (1962-64): Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party and Freedom Summer (1964); Index marker: 24:00-37:00
Episode 6: Bridge to Freedom (1965): Jim Clark, Selma sheriff, denies people right to vote and subsequent march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama (March 1965); The copy I had didn't have index markings, but it starts about 5 minutes in and continues for about 15 minutes.

MRC also has guides to these videos which are useful for locating other interesting and relevant segments. If you use material from these videos in your essay, you should document it with footnotes and in your bibliography. A sample reference could look like:

Eyes on the Prize: America's Civil Rights Years, 1954-1965; Episode I: Awakenings (1954-56) (Boston: Blackside, Inc., 1986).