Eyes on the Prize

Ain't Scared of Your Jails (1960-1961)

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.

Ain't Scared of Your Jails (1960-1961)

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.

Previews + Extras

  • Ain't Scared of Your Jails (1960-1961) | Promo: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Ain't Scared of Your Jails (1960-1961) | Promo

    S1 E3 - 30s

    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.

  • Ain't Scared of Your Jails (1960-1961) | Freedom Riders: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Ain't Scared of Your Jails (1960-1961) | Freedom Riders

    S1 E3 - 1m 3s

    James Farmer, the director of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), explains the step-by-step procedures for the Freedom Riders from Washington, D.C. through America's South to New Orleans, Louisiana in 1961. From Eyes on the Prize: Ain't Scared of Your Jails (1960-1961).

  • Ain't Scared of Your Jails (1960-1961) | John Lewis: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Ain't Scared of Your Jails (1960-1961) | John Lewis

    S1 E3 - 1m 39s

    John Lewis speaks about the planned protection detail for the Freedom Riders in Alabama, and what actually happened along the way from Birmingham to their arrival in Montgomery. From Eyes on the Prize: Ain't Scared of Your Jails (1960-1961).

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