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Eyes on the Prize: America's Civil Rights Movement, Vol. 7 (1990)

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The keys to the kingdom (1974-1980): Famous and lesser-known participants recount the remedies used to solve the problems of discrimination in schools and the workplace. For blacks and whites in Boston, court-ordered busing proves an unpopular means of integrating schools. Atlanta's first black mayor, Maynard Jackson pursues affirmative action to help combat the city's poverty rate.

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Eyes on the Prize: America's Civil Rights Movement, Vol. 7

Eyes on the Prize: America's Civil Rights Movement, Vol. 6 (1990)

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Ain't gonna shuffle no more (1964-1972): A call to pride and a renewed push for unity galvanizes Black Americans.

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Eyes on the Prize: America's Civil Rights Movement, Vol. 6

Eyes on the Prize: America's Civil Rights Movement, Vol. 5 (1990)

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Power! (1966-1968): Across America, the call for "Black Power" mobilizes communities for change in strikingly different ways as told through the perspectives of Black Panther Party members, teachers, and politicians. Promised land (1967-1968): Hear leaders and activists reflect on Martin Luther Kings, Jr's crusade to overcome the fragmenting civil rights movement.

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Eyes on the Prize: America's Civil Rights Movement, Vol. 5

Eyes on the Prize: America's Civil Rights Movement, Vol. 4 (1990)

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The time has come (1964-1966): Malcolm X...Stokely Carmichael..."Black Power". After a decade-long cry for justice, a new sound is on the horizon: the insistent call for power. Two societies (1965-1968): Chicago...Detroit...the Kerner Commission.

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Eyes on the Prize: America's Civil Rights Movement, Vol. 4

Eyes on the Prize: America's Civil Rights Movement, Vol. 3 (1986)

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Mississippi: is this America? (1962-1964) : Focuses on the right to vote. Tells how the black citizens who had been denied the right to vote stepped forward and demanded a place in the political process. Medgar Evers, Michael Schwerner, Andrew Goodman, James Chaney, and others, died trying to help them.

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Eyes on the Prize: America's Civil Rights Movement, Vol. 3

Eyes on the Prize: America's Civil Rights Movement, Vol. 2 (1986)

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Ain't scared of your jails (1960-1961): Covers lunch counter sit-ins and their impact on the Kennedy and Nixon presidential race of 1960, the formation of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee, and the freedom rides of 1961. No easy walk (1961-1963): Visits the cities where the tactics of nonviolent protest met both success and failure.

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Eyes on the Prize: America's Civil Rights Movement, Vol. 2