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Eyes on the Prize

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

Season 1 Episode 3

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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A decade of lessons is applied in the climactic and bloody march from Selma to Montgomery,
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Mississippi’s grassroots Civil Rights Movement becomes an American concern.
No Easy Walk (1961-1963)
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The Civil Rights Movement discovers the power of mass demonstrations.
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States’ rights, loyalists, and federal authorities collide over school integration.
Awakenings (1954-1956)
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Individual acts of courage inspire Black Southerners to fight for their rights.
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