Bridge to Freedom (1965)
A 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 rights leaders know they have new challenges ahead.
Episodes
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Bridge to Freedom (1965)
S1 E6 - 56m 15s
A 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 rights leaders know they have new challenges ahead.
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Mississippi - Is This America? (1963-1964)
S1 E5 - 56m 15s
Mississippi’s grassroots Civil Rights Movement becomes an American concern when college students travel south to help register black voters and three of them are murdered. The Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party challenges the regular Mississippi delegation at the Democratic Convention in Atlantic City.
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No Easy Walk (1961-1963)
S1 E4 - 56m 15s
The Civil Rights Movement discovers the power of mass demonstrations as the Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. emerges as its most visible leader. Some demonstrations succeed; others fail. But the triumphant March on Washington, D.C., under King’s leadership shows mounting national support for civil rights. President John F. Kennedy proposes the Civil Rights Act.
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Ain't Scared of Your Jails (1960-1961)
S1 E3 - 56m 14s
Black 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 buses, but they are brutally attacked as they travel.
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Fighting Back (1957–1962)
S1 E2 - 56m 14s
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 US president, violence erupts - and integration is carried out.
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Awakenings (1954-1956)
S1 E1 - 56m 15s
Individual 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 to give up her bus seat to a white man in Montgomery, Alabama.
Extras + Features
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Back to the Movement (1979-mid '80s) | Promo
S2 E8 - 30s
Power and powerlessness. Miami's black community -- pummeled by urban renewal, a lack of jobs, and police harassment -- explodes in rioting. But in Chicago, an unprecedented grassroots movement triumphs. Frustrated by decades of unfulfilled promises made by the city's Democratic political machine, reformers install Harold Washington as Chicago's first Black mayor.
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The Keys to the Kingdom (1974-1980) | Promo
S2 E7 - 30s
In the 1970s, anti-discrimination legal rights gained in past decades by the Civil Rights Movement are put to the test. In Boston, some whites violently resist a federal court school desegregation order. Atlanta's first black mayor, Maynard Jackson, proves that affirmative action can work, but the Bakke Supreme Court case challenges that policy.
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A Nation of Law? (1968-1971) | Promo
S2 E6 - 30s
Black activism is increasingly met with a violent and unethical response from law enforcement agencies. In Chicago, two Black Panther Party leaders are killed by police acting on information supplied by an FBI informant. In the wake of Nixon's call to "law and order," arrests push the poor conditions at Attica to the limit; an inmate takeover calling attention to the conditions leaves 43 dead.
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Ain't Gonna Shuffle No More (1964-1972) | Promo
S2 E5 - 30s
A renewed push for unity galvanizes Black America. Cassius Clay challenges America to accept him as Muhammad Ali. Howard University students fight to bring the Black consciousness movement and African heritage inside the Black institution. Black officials and activists organize the National Black Political Convention in an attempt to create a unified Black response to growing repression.
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The Promised Land (1967-1968) | Promo
S2 E4 - 30s
Martin Luther King, Jr. stakes out new ground for himself and the fragmenting Civil Rights Movement. King opposes the war in Vietnam. His SCLC embarks on the Poor People's Campaign. In the midst of organizing, King detours to support striking sanitation workers in Memphis, where he is assassinated. His death and the failure of his final campaign mark the end of a major stream of the movement.
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Power! (1966-1968) | Promo
S2 E3 - 30s
The call for Black Power takes various forms across communities in Black America. In Cleveland, Carl Stokes wins as the first Black mayor of a major American city. The Black Panther Party, armed with books, programs, and guns, is born in Oakland. Substandard teaching practices prompt parents to gain control of a school district but lead them to a showdown with New York City's teachers' union.
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Two Societies (1965-1968) | Promo
S2 E2 - 30s
Martin Luther King, Jr. and the SCLC come north to help Chicago's civil rights leaders in their nonviolent struggle against segregated housing. In Detroit, a police raid in a Black neighborhood sparks an uprising, leaving 43 people dead. The Kerner Commission finds that America is becoming "two societies, one black, one white, separate and unequal" - President Lyndon Johnson ignores the report.
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The Time Has Come (1964-1966) | Promo
S2 E1 - 30s
After a decade-long cry for justice, a new sound is heard in the Civil Rights Movement: the call for power. Malcolm X takes an eloquent nationalism to urban streets as a younger generation of Black leaders listens. In the South, Stokely Carmichael and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee move from "Freedom Now!" to "Black Power!" as the fabric of the traditional movement changes.
Schedule
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Eyes on the Prize
Awakenings 1954-1956
Thursday
Jun 24
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1 Hour
Blacks testify against whites accused of a lynching; an Alabama boycott forces desegregation of buses. -
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Eyes on the Prize
Fighting Back 1957-1962
Thursday
Jun 24
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1 Hour
School desegregation in 1957 Arkansas; James Meredith challenges school segregation in 1962 Mississippi. -
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Eyes on the Prize
Ain't Scared of Your Jails 1960-1961
Thursday
Jun 24
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1 Hour
Black students join in lunch-counter sit-ins; the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee; CORE's Freedom Riders are attacked. -
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Eyes on the Prize
Awakenings 1954-1956
Friday
Jun 25
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1 Hour
Blacks testify against whites accused of a lynching; an Alabama boycott forces desegregation of buses. -
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Eyes on the Prize
Fighting Back 1957-1962
Friday
Jun 25
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1 Hour
School desegregation in 1957 Arkansas; James Meredith challenges school segregation in 1962 Mississippi. -
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Eyes on the Prize
Ain't Scared of Your Jails 1960-1961
Friday
Jun 25
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1 Hour
Black students join in lunch-counter sit-ins; the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee; CORE's Freedom Riders are attacked. -
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Eyes on the Prize
No Easy Walk 1961-1963
Saturday
Jun 26
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1 Hour
An Albany, Ga., anti-segregation demonstration; Birmingham, Ala., Children's March; the "I Have a Dream" Washington, D.C., rally. -
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Eyes on the Prize
Mississippi: Is This America? 1963-1964
Saturday
Jun 26
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1 Hour
The right-to-vote battle within Mississippi, focusing on the murder of three civil rights workers and the Freedom Democratic Party. -
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Eyes on the Prize
Bridge to Freedom 1965
Saturday
Jun 26
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1 Hour
The civil rights movement begins to splinter despite the success of the 1965 march in Alabama from Selma to Montgomery. -
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Eyes on the Prize
No Easy Walk 1961-1963
Sunday
Jun 27
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1 Hour
An Albany, Ga., anti-segregation demonstration; Birmingham, Ala., Children's March; the "I Have a Dream" Washington, D.C., rally. -
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Eyes on the Prize
Mississippi: Is This America? 1963-1964
Sunday
Jun 27
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1 Hour
The right-to-vote battle within Mississippi, focusing on the murder of three civil rights workers and the Freedom Democratic Party. -
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Eyes on the Prize
Bridge to Freedom 1965
Sunday
Jun 27
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1 Hour
The civil rights movement begins to splinter despite the success of the 1965 march in Alabama from Selma to Montgomery. -
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Eyes on the Prize
No Easy Walk 1961-1963
Sunday
Jun 27
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1 Hour
An Albany, Ga., anti-segregation demonstration; Birmingham, Ala., Children's March; the "I Have a Dream" Washington, D.C., rally. -
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Eyes on the Prize
Awakenings 1954-1956
Sunday
Jun 27
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1 Hour
Blacks testify against whites accused of a lynching; an Alabama boycott forces desegregation of buses. -
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Eyes on the Prize
Mississippi: Is This America? 1963-1964
Monday
Jun 28
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1 Hour
The right-to-vote battle within Mississippi, focusing on the murder of three civil rights workers and the Freedom Democratic Party. -
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Eyes on the Prize
Fighting Back 1957-1962
Monday
Jun 28
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1 Hour
School desegregation in 1957 Arkansas; James Meredith challenges school segregation in 1962 Mississippi. -
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Eyes on the Prize
Bridge to Freedom 1965
Monday
Jun 28
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1 Hour
The civil rights movement begins to splinter despite the success of the 1965 march in Alabama from Selma to Montgomery. -
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Eyes on the Prize
Ain't Scared of Your Jails 1960-1961
Monday
Jun 28
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1 Hour
Black students join in lunch-counter sit-ins; the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee; CORE's Freedom Riders are attacked. -
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Eyes on the Prize
No Easy Walk 1961-1963
Thursday
Jul 1
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1 Hour
An Albany, Ga., anti-segregation demonstration; Birmingham, Ala., Children's March; the "I Have a Dream" Washington, D.C., rally. -
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Eyes on the Prize
Mississippi: Is This America? 1963-1964
Thursday
Jul 1
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1 Hour
The right-to-vote battle within Mississippi, focusing on the murder of three civil rights workers and the Freedom Democratic Party.
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