The Promised Land 1967-1968 -
eyes on the prize

Martin Luther King, Jr. stakes out new ground for himself and the rapidly fragmenting civil rights movement. In the midst of political organizing, he detours to support striking sanitation workers in Memphis, where he's assassinated.

Episode Duration: 56 minutes and 46 seconds

Episode Number: 204

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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