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.
Previews + Extras
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
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
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).
Ain't Scared of Your Jails (1960-1961) | Nashville Sit-Ins
S1 E3 - 1m 17s
In 1960, Fisk student and activist Diane Nash recounts the lunch counter sit-ins in Nashville, Tennessee. From Eyes on the Prize: Ain't Scared of Your Jails (1960-1961).
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