Eyes on the Prize

Fighting Back (1957–1962)

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.

Fighting Back (1957–1962)

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.

Previews + Extras

  • Fighting Back (1957–1962) | Promo: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Fighting Back (1957–1962) | Promo

    S1 E2 - 30s

    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.

  • Fighting Back (1957–1962) | Elizabeth Eckford: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Fighting Back (1957–1962) | Clip | Elizabeth Eckford

    S1 E2 - 32s

    Elizabeth Eckford, one of the Little Rock Nine students, arrives at Arkansas's Central High School for the first day the school is desegregated in its history but is met by an angry crowd to a bus stop. From Eyes on the Prize: Fighting Back (1957–1962).

  • Fighting Back (1957–1962) | The Little Rock Nine: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Fighting Back (1957–1962) | Clip | The Little Rock Nine

    S1 E2 - 33s

    Melba Pattillo Beals, one of the Little Rock Nine students, shares the police's plan to escort them to safety on the day they were to attend Arkansas's Central High School. It was the school's first day of desegregation but instead an angry crowd surrounded the student and school. From Eyes on the Prize: Fighting Back (1957–1962).

  • Fighting Back (1957–1962) | Minnijean Brown: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Fighting Back (1957–1962) | Clip | Minnijean Brown

    S1 E2 - 1m 9s

    Melba Patillo Beals and Ernest Green recall when fellow Little Rock Nine student Minnijean Brown retaliated against the harassment by white students at Arkansas's Central High School. From Eyes on the Prize: Fighting Back (1957–1962).

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