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Eyes on the prize / Henry Hampton; Judith Vecchione; Orlando Bagwell; James A DeVinney; Callie Crossley. Videorecording.

Material type: TextPublication details: [United States] : PBS Distribution, [2010] c2010.Description: 3 videodiscs (360 min.) : sound, color, black and white ; 4 3/4 inISBN:
  • 9781608831067
Other title:
  • America's civil rights years
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • E185.61
Contents:
Disc 1. Awakenings (1954-1956) -- Fighting back (1957-1962) -- Disc 2. Ain't scared of your jails (1960-1961) -- No easy walk (1961-1963) -- Disc 3. Mississippi: Is this America? (1962-1964) -- Bridge to freedom (1965).
Production credits:
  • Associate producers, Llewellyn M. Smith, Prudence Arndt ; edited by Daniel Eisenberg, Jeanne Jordan, Charles Scott ; senior researcher, Laurie Kahn-Leavitt ; camera, Jon Else [and others] ; academic advisors, Wiley Branton, Clayborne Carson, John Dittmer, Tony Freyer, David Garrow, Paul Gaston, Vincent Harding, Darlene Clark Hine, Steve Lawson, Genna Rae McNeil, Aldon Morris, J. Mills Thornton, Howard Zinn ; theme music produced, arranged and performed by Bernice Johnson Reagan ; series title animation, Colossal Pictures.
Julian Bond, narrator.Summary: The definitive story of the Civil Rights era from the point of view of the ordinary men and women whose extraordinary actions launched a movement that changed the fabric of American life, and embodied a struggle whose reverberations are felt today.
Item type: Audiovisual Item
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Judith Thomas Library Audio-Visuals Audio-Visual HB145 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) AV433 Available

Originally produced in 1986, as a special presentation of American experience.
Special feature: interview with Henry Hampton.

Disc 1. Awakenings (1954-1956) --
Fighting back (1957-1962) --
Disc 2. Ain't scared of your jails (1960-1961) --
No easy walk (1961-1963) --
Disc 3. Mississippi: Is this America? (1962-1964) --
Bridge to freedom (1965).

Associate producers, Llewellyn M. Smith, Prudence Arndt ; edited by Daniel Eisenberg, Jeanne Jordan, Charles Scott ; senior researcher, Laurie Kahn-Leavitt ; camera, Jon Else [and others] ; academic advisors, Wiley Branton, Clayborne Carson, John Dittmer, Tony Freyer, David Garrow, Paul Gaston, Vincent Harding, Darlene Clark Hine, Steve Lawson, Genna Rae McNeil, Aldon Morris, J. Mills Thornton, Howard Zinn ; theme music produced, arranged and performed by Bernice Johnson Reagan ; series title animation, Colossal Pictures.

Julian Bond, narrator.

The definitive story of the Civil Rights era from the point of view of the ordinary men and women whose extraordinary actions launched a movement that changed the fabric of American life, and embodied a struggle whose reverberations are felt today.