Eyes on the Prize Returns to PBS in October 2006
 

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/schedule.html

Eyes on the Prize
Monday, October 2, 2006 (2 hrs.)

Episode 1: Awakenings 1954-1956
Individual acts of courage inspire black Southerners to fight for their rights: Mose Wright testifies against the white men who murdered young Emmett Till, and Rosa Parks refuses to give up her bus seat to a white man in Montgomery, Alabama.

Episode 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 US president, violence erupts ­ and integration is carried out.
(Produced by Blackside)
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Eyes on the Prize
Monday, October 9, 2006 (2 hrs.)
Episode 3: Ain't Scared of Your Jails 1960-1961
Black college students take a leadership role in the Civil Rights Movement as lunch counter sit-ins spread across the South. ³Freedom Riders² also try to desegregate interstate buses, but they are brutally attacked as they travel.

Episode 4: No Easy Walk 1961-1963
The Civil Rights Movement discovers the power of mass demonstrations as the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. emerges as its most visible leader. Some demonstrations succeed; others fail. But the triumphant March on Washington, DC, under King's leadership, shows a mounting national support for civil rights. President John F. Kennedy proposes the Civil Rights Act.
(Produced by Blackside)
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Eyes on the Prize
Monday, October 16, 2006 (2 hrs.)
Episode 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 of them are murdered. The Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party challenges the regular Mississippi delegation at the Democratic Convention in Atlantic City.

Episode 6: Bridge to Freedom 1965
A decade of lessons is applied in the climactic and bloody march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama. A major victory is won when the federal Voting Rights Bill passes, but Civil Rights leaders know they have new challenges ahead.
(Produced by Blackside)
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Last time I saw these was 6th grade with one of my teachers.:cool:

YAHHHHHHH!!!! I LOVE Eyes on the Prize!!! :D :D :D

I'm a Civil Rights/Black History junkie, if you couldn't tell! :D

I'll be TIVOing it when it comes on. These should be required viewing for all kids.

I always thought that everyone watched it in grade school; I was really surprised in my Race & Ethnicity class at GT when I brought it up and so many people had no idea what I was talking about ... :(

I'm looking forward to watching it for the first time.

^^You'll love it.

I can't wait for this to come on. My daughter is watching it with me, although she doesn't know this yet, lol.

(singing-off key, but singing) "Keep yo' eyes on the priiiiize"....Love it!! Love it!!

You use to be able to buy the series...we had it on VHS when I was younger but I think my mom's ex took it :mad:
anyway I can't wait to see it again...definitely "must see t.v."!!!!

I will be taping this (nope, no tivo/dvr, etc). Like most of you, I thought everyone watched this either in school or their parents sat them down in front of the tv (like mine) and made them watch it. Those that didn't grow up watching this missed out. Definately, must see tv.

Time to set up the DVR! i love this series

I think only if you had parent from the old school like most of us had did they have you watch this show....so I agree anyone that has never seen this, you need to be on it.:)

Really? Wow. I wasn't forced to watch it, I cut on the TV and watched it myself when I was in middle school. I learned a lot, more than they taught in school.

In high school, which was all black, there were two black civics teachers. One taught strictly European history, the other showed Eyes on the Prize, Glory and other films. Needless to say, I didn't see Eyes on the Prize until I watched it on my own in college. :( I will be watching it again. I will make sure that my kids (who are now 3 and 1) will watch it. That is when they are older.:)

Reminder, this starts tomorrow evening:cool: