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Saturday, March 2, 2013

Eyes on the Prize: Back to the Movement (1979-1983) [Part 14 or 14] (1990)



















Starring:
  • Julian Bond
  • Eugene 'Bull' Connor
PBS.org
Power and powerlessness. Miami's black community -- pummelled by urban renewal, a lack of jobs, and police harassment -- explodes in rioting. But in Chicago, an unprecedented grassroots movement triumphs. Frustrated by decades of unfulfilled promises made by the city's Democratic political machine, reformers install Harold Washington as Chicago's first black mayor.

Transcript for "Back to the Movement": PBS.org

Eyes on the Prize: The Keys to the Kingdom (1974-1980) [Part 13 or 14] (1990)
























Starring:
  • Julian Bond
  • James Buckley
  • Eugene 'Bull' Connor
PBS.org
In the 1970s, anti-discrimination legal rights gained in past decades by the civil rights movement are put to the test. In Boston, some whites violently resist a federal court school desegregation order. Atlanta's first black mayor, Maynard Jackson, proves that affirmative action can work, but the Bakke Supreme Court case challenges that policy.

Transcripts for "The Keys to the Kingdom": PBS.org

Eyes on the Prize: A Nation of Law? (1968-1971) [Part 12 of 14] (1990)



















Starring:
  • Julian Bond
  • Elaine Brown
  • William Brown
PBS.org
Black activism is increasingly met with a sometimes violent and unethical response from local and federal law enforcement agencies. In Chicago, two Black Panther Party leaders are killed in a pre-dawn raid by police acting on information supplied by an FBI informant. In the wake of President Nixon's call to "law and order," stepped-up arrests push the already poor conditions at New York's Attica State Prison to the limit. A five-day inmate takeover calling the public's attention to the conditions leaves 43 men dead: four killed by inmates, 39 by police.

Transcript for "A Nation of Law": PBS.org