Fighting back : 1957-1962 /
States' rights loyalists and federal authorities collide in the 1957 battle to integrate Little Rock's Central High School, and again in James Meredith's 1962 challenge to segregation at the University of Mississippi. Both times, a Southern governor squares off with a U.S. president,...
| Uniform Title: | Eyes on the prize (Television program). |
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| Format: | Video |
| Language: | English |
| Language Notes: | In English. |
| Published: |
Arlington, VA :
Public Broadcasting Service,
[1986]
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| Online Access: | Connect to this streaming video (Alexander Street Press) |
| Summary: | States' rights loyalists and federal authorities collide in the 1957 battle to integrate Little Rock's Central High School, and again in James Meredith's 1962 challenge to segregation at the University of Mississippi. Both times, a Southern governor squares off with a U.S. president, violence erupts -- and integration is carried out. |
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| Item Description: | Originally broadcast as an episode of Eyes on the Prize, on American experience in 1986. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (57 minutes) : sound, color and black and white |
| Playing Time: | 00:56:43 |