Awakenings 1954-1956 -
eyes on the prize

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.

Episode Duration: 56 minutes and 46 seconds

Episode Number: 101

About Eyes on the Prize:

Revisit this landmark series, 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.

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