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Eyes On The Prize

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Eyes on the prize: America's Civil Rights Years is a 1987 documentary series about the African-American Civil Rights Movement covering the years of 1954 to 1965. The series was followed-up by Eyes on the prize II: America at the racial crossroads broadcast in 1990. The series was created and executively-produced by Henry Hampton at Blackside Inc for PBS. It was also shown in the United Kingdom on BBC2.

With its extensive use primary sources such as archival footage and interviews with persons involved in the mentioned events, the series is lauded for its depiction of the civil rights movement and used extensively in schools and other educational settings as a way to convey the experiences and struggle for civil rights in America.

The title of the series is derived from the song "Keep Your Eyes on the Prize", which is used in each episode as the opening theme music.

… + Show moreSelma to Montgomery marches. It was broadcast in 1987 on PBS. The remaining 8 episodes make up Eyes on the Prize II: America at the Racial Crossroads 1965–1985 which was broadcast on PBS in 1990.The series uses archival footage to record the growth of the civil rights movement in the United States, with special focus on the ordinary people who effected the change. It was created and executive-produced by Henry Hampton at Blackside, Inc.The series has been hailed as more than just a historical document. Clayborne Carson, a Stanford University history professor and editor of the published papers of Martin Luther King, Jr., remarked that "it is the principal film account of the most important American social justice movement of the 20th century". Because of its extensive use of primary sources and in-depth coverage of the material, it has been adopted as a key reference and record of the civil rights movement.