Eyes on the Prize — Season 1, Episode 1: Awakenings, 1954-1956
Documentary • 60 min • 2 seasons, 14 episodes • ★ 7.0/10
Episode synopsis
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.
About Eyes on the Prize
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 reverberation continue to be felt today.