Eyes on the Prize — Season 1, Episode 5: Mississippi, Is This America, 1962-1964
Documentary • 60 min • 2 seasons, 14 episodes • ★ 7.0/10
Episode synopsis
Mississippi's grass-roots civil rights movement becomes an American concern when college students travel south to help register black voters and three activists are murdered. The Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party challenges the regular Mississippi delegation at the Democratic Convention in Atlantic City.
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.