Eyes on the Prize: Learn How Change Happens

Learn How Change Happens

Eyes on the Prize: America’s Civil Rights Movement is an American television series documentary about the civil rights movement in the US. It tells 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 continue to be felt today. The series is narrated by political leader and civil rights activist Julian Bond (1940-2015).

Details

What: Community viewing of the first season of Eyes on the Prize followed by short conversation. Each episode is about 60 minutes long.

Week 2: 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 U.S. president, violence erupts — and integration is carried out.

When: 4/14 – 5/19 on Tuesdays from 4:00 – 5:30 PM

Where: Virtual (registration required, sign up below)