Format:
DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials
Title:
Eyes on the prize. Vol. 3, Mississippi : is this America? (1962-1964) ;p Bridge to freedom (1965): America's civil rights movement / Blackside ; [creator and executive producer, Henry Hampton].
Call Number:
323.1 E DVD V.3
Edition:
Full screen.
Publisher, Date:
[Alexandria, Va.] : PBS Video, [2006]
Description:
1 videodisc (ca. 120 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Summary:
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. Shows the formation of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party to challenge the 1964 Democratic Party Convention.
Bridge to freedom (1965) : When civil rights protesters marching from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama were assaulted by police, national outrage over the brutality led to President Johnson providing the protection of federal troops, and ultimately to the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
Target Audience Note:
MPAA rating: PG.
Subjects:
African Americans -- Civil rights -- History -- 20th century.
African Americans -- Suffrage -- History -- 20th century.
Segregation -- United States -- History.
African Americans -- History -- 20th century.
Civil rights demonstrations -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Civil rights -- United States.
United States -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century.
Closed caption DVDs.
Genre:
Documentary television programs.
Films for the hearing impaired.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Other Author:
Hampton, Henry, 1940-1998.
Bond, Julian, 1940-2015
Blackside, Inc.
PBS Video.
Other Title:
American experience (Television program)
Mississippi : is this America? (1962-1964)
Bridge to freedom (1965)
ISBN:
0793692571
9780793692576