Filmed interview with Charles Diggs conducted for Eyes on the Prize. Discussion centers on the trial of Emmett Till's killers (which he attended), the impact of the Till case, the Montgomery Bus Boycott, and battles over segregation in Congress.
Subject:
Racerelations--UnitedStates
Creator:
Blackside, Inc.
Contributor:
Blackside, Inc., Smith, Llewellyn
Publisher:
Washington University in St. Louis, Blackside, Inc.
Filmed interview with Robert B. Ellis conducted for Eyes on the Prize. Discussion centers on the integration crisis at the University of Mississippi, James Meredith and Governor Ross Barnett.
Subject:
Racerelations--UnitedStates
Creator:
Blackside, Inc.
Contributor:
Blackside, Inc., Vecchione, Judith
Publisher:
Washington University in St. Louis, Blackside, Inc.
Interview of Reverend Joseph Ellwanger conducted for Eyes on the Prize. Discussion centers on the Selma to Montgomery Rights March and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. .
Subject:
Racerelations--UnitedStates
Creator:
Blackside, Inc.
Contributor:
Blackside, Inc., Crossley, Callie
Publisher:
Washington University in St. Louis, Blackside, Inc.
Interview of Myrlie Evers, widow of Medgar Evers, conducted for Eyes on the Prize. Discussion centers on her childhood in Vicksburg and Tugaloo, MS, and her own experience of segregation.
Subject:
Racerelations--UnitedStates
Creator:
Blackside, Inc.
Contributor:
Blackside, Inc., Bagwell, Orlando
Publisher:
Washington University in St. Louis, Blackside, Inc.
Filmed interview with James Farmer conducted for Eyes on the Prize. Discussion centers on his work in the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), the sit-ins, the Freedom Rides, and debates within the movement over the commitment to non-violence.
Subject:
Racerelations--UnitedStates
Creator:
Blackside, Inc.
Contributor:
Blackside, Inc., Arndt, Prudence
Publisher:
Washington University in St. Louis, Blackside, Inc.
Interview of James Forman conducted for Eyes on the Prize. Discussion centers on the March on Washington and the Selma to Montgomery Rights March, along with discussing SNCC and SCLC.
Subject:
Racerelations--UnitedStates
Creator:
Blackside, Inc.
Contributor:
Blackside, Inc., Crossley, Callie
Publisher:
Washington University in St. Louis, Blackside, Inc.
Filmed interview with Orval Faubus conducted for America, They Loved You Madly, a precursor to Eyes on the Prize. Discussion centers on the integration crisis at Little Rock's Central High School.
Subject:
Racerelations--UnitedStates
Creator:
Blackside, Inc.
Contributor:
Blackside, Inc.
Publisher:
Washington University in St. Louis, Blackside, Inc.
Filmed interview with A.G. Gaston conducted for Eyes on the Prize. Discussion centers on the Birmingham campaign of 1963 and his efforts to reach a negotiated settlement between civil rights activists and the city government, including Bull Connor.
Subject:
Racerelations--UnitedStates
Creator:
Blackside, Inc.
Contributor:
Blackside, Inc., DeVinney, James
Publisher:
Washington University in St. Louis, Blackside, Inc.