Eyes on the Prize — Season 1, Episode 3: Ain't Scared of Your Jails, 1960-1961
Documentary • 60 min • 2 seasons, 14 episodes • ★ 7.0/10
Episode synopsis
Black college students take a leadership role in the civil rights movement as lunch counter sit-ins spread across the South. "Freedom Riders" also try to desegregate interstate buses, but they are brutally attacked as they travel.
About Eyes on the Prize
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, and embodied a struggle whose reverberation continue to be felt today.