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Eyes on the Prize
Mississippi - Is This America? (1963-1964)
Season 1
Episode 5
Mississippi’s grassroots Civil Rights Movement becomes an American concern when college students travel south to help register black voters and three of them are murdered. The Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party challenges the regular Mississippi delegation at the Democratic Convention in Atlantic City.
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A decade of lessons is applied in the climactic and bloody march from Selma to Montgomery,
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The Civil Rights Movement discovers the power of mass demonstrations.
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Black college students take a leadership role in the Civil Rights Movement.
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States’ rights, loyalists, and federal authorities collide over school integration.
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Individual acts of courage inspire Black Southerners to fight for their rights.