Eyes on the Prize

Mississippi - Is This America? (1963-1964) | Freedom Summer

In 1964, activist Bob Moses announces Freedom Summer in Mississippi. The project would send volunteers, mostly white, to join Black residents in the state to assist with education, community activities like voter registration. From Eyes on the Prize: Mississippi - Is This America? (1963-1964).

Mississippi - Is This America? (1963-1964) | Freedom Summer

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  • Bridge to Freedom (1965): asset-mezzanine-16x9

    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.

  • Mississippi - Is This America? (1963-1964): asset-mezzanine-16x9

    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.

  • No Easy Walk (1961-1963): asset-mezzanine-16x9

    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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