Eyes on the prize. Bridge to freedom, 1965

Highlights the historic march for freedom in 1965 to Selma, Alabama. Considers the highly sophisticated strategies of Martin Luther King Jr and the SCLC, but questions whether progress in the South would have any effect on the economic condition of blacks in the urban North. Part of a six-part series on the civil rights struggle in America between 1954 and 1965.

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"Ten years after Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a white man on a Montgomery, Alabama bus and nearly twenty years after the Supreme Court decreed that "separate but equal" was unconstitutional, black Americans were still fighting for equality. But millions had now joined the movement in Selma, Ala. thousands of blacks and whites came together to march fifty miles for freedom."
"Highlights the historic march for freedom in 1965 to Selma, Alabama. Considers the highly sophisticated strategies of Martin Luther King Jr and the SCLC, but questions whether progress in the South would have any effect on the economic condition of blacks in the urban North. Part of a six-part series on the civil rights struggle in America between 1954 and 1965."@en
"The early history of the Civil rights movement in America, focusing on the drive to make voting rights a national issue and the strategic differences among different age groups of Blacks. Includes documentary footage and contemporary interviews."@en
"Original newsclips depict the Civil Rights Struggle. Includes the 1965 Selma March, Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcom X, the white backlash and other topics."@en
"Covers the push for black voting rights in Alabama and nationally. The division within the civil rights movement between the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) grows, particularly in their approach to the Selma-Montgomery Freedom March in 1965. That same year sees the National Voting Rights Act signed into law by President Lyndon Johnson."
"Covers the push for black voting rights in Alabama and nationally. The division within the civil rights movement between the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) grows, particularly in their approach to the Selma-Montgomery Freedom March in 1965. That same year sees the National Voting Rights Act signed into law by President Lyndon Johnson."@en
"When civil rights protesters marching from Selma to Montogomery, 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."@en
"Ten years after Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a white man on a Montgomery, Alabama bus and nearly twenty years after the Supreme Court decreed that "separate but equal" was unconstitutional, black Americans were still fighting for equality. But millions had now joined the movement and in Selma, Ala. thousands of blacks and whites came together to march fifty miles for freedom."@en
"Ten years after Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a white man on a Montgomery, Alabama bus and nearly twenty years after the Supreme Court decreed that "separate but equal" was unconstitutional, Black Americans werestill fighting for equality. But millions had now joined the movement and in Selma, Ala. thousands of Blacks and Whites came together to march fifty miles for freedom."
"Presents the freedom march of 1965 from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama. During the drive to make voting rights a national issue, ideological differences within the civil rights movement surface. As the movement splinters into factions, the Voting Rights Act becomes law."@en
"Shows how the civil rights leadership changed its protest strategy to generate nationwide sympathy and federal intervention."@en
"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."@en
"A comprehensive documentary on America's civil rights movement focusing on the issues, the personalities and the events. Highlights the historic march for equality in Selma, Alabama and chronicles the race riots in northern cities."