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 5: Mississippi: Is This America? (1963-1964)
Mississippi’s grass-roots civil rights movement becomes an American concern when college students travel south to help register black voters and three activists are murdered. The Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party challenges the regular Mississippi delegation at the Democratic Convention in Atlantic City.

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

Where: Virtual (registration required, sign up below)