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Eyes on the prize [videorecording] : America's civil rights years, 1954-1965 / creator and executive producer, Henry Hampton ; a production of Blackside.

Contributor(s): DeVinney, James A | Bond, Julian, 1940-2015 | Hampton, Henry, 1940-1998 | PBS Home Video | Blackside, Inc
Material type: FilmFilmPublisher: Alexandria, VA : PBS Home Video, 2010Description: 3 videodiscs (360 min.) : sound, color, black and white ; 4 3/4 inContent type: two-dimensional moving image Media type: video Carrier type: videodiscISBN: 9786313427093 (DVD); 6313427092 (DVD); 9781608831067; 160883106XOther title: America's civil rights years, 1954-1965Uniform titles: Eyes on the prize (Television program) | American experience (Television program) Subject(s): African Americans -- Civil rights -- History -- 20th century | African Americans -- Suffrage -- History -- 20th century | Segregation -- United States -- History -- 20th century | Civil rights movements -- United States -- History -- 20th century -- Personal narratives | Civil rights movements -- United States -- History -- 20th century | United States -- History -- 1953-1961 | United States -- History -- 1961-1969 | United States -- Race relationsGenre/Form: Historical television programs. | Documentary television programs. | Video recordings for the hearing impaired. | Nonfiction television programs.
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.
Holdings
Item type Current library Shelving location Call number Vol info Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Media Media John Bulow Campbell Library Media E185.61 .E9 2010 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) V.1 1 Available 0182903502900
Media Media John Bulow Campbell Library Media E185.61 .E9 2010 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) V.2 1 Available 0182903502918
Media Media John Bulow Campbell Library Media E185.61 .E9 2010 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) V.3 1 Available 0182903502926

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).

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.

TV rating: TV-PG.

DVDs, stereo.

For private home use only.

Closed-captioned.

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.

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