Interview with Peter Orris conducted for Eyes on the Prize. Discussion centers on his involvement with SNCC and voter registration drives as part of Freedom Summer in Mississippi.
Subject:
Civilrightsmovements--United States
Creator:
Blackside, Inc.
Contributor:
Blackside, Inc., Arndt, Prudence
Publisher:
Washington University in St. Louis, Blackside, Inc.
Interview with Craig Rains conducted for Eyes on the Prize. Discussion focused on the integration crisis at Central High School in Little Rock, where Rains was a student.
Subject:
Civilrightsmovements--United States
Creator:
Blackside, Inc.
Contributor:
Blackside, Inc., Vecchione, Judith
Publisher:
Washington University in St. Louis, Blackside, Inc.
Filmed interview with Hollis Watkins conducted for Eyes on the Prize. Discussion centers on the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and activism in Mississippi, including SNCC activity in McComb, Mississippi and Fannie Lou Hamer.
Subject:
Civilrightsmovements--United States
Creator:
Blackside, Inc.
Contributor:
Blackside, Inc.
Publisher:
Washington University in St. Louis, Blackside, Inc.
Interview with Vanessa Venable conducted for Eyes on the Prize. Discussion centers on the closing of schools in Prince Edward County, Virginia, a tactic employed by the state government to avoid integration.
Subject:
Civilrightsmovements--United States
Creator:
Blackside, Inc.
Contributor:
Blackside, Inc., Vecchione, Judith
Publisher:
Washington University in St. Louis, Blackside, Inc.
Interview with Melba Patillo Beals conducted for Eyes on the prize. Discussion centers on her experiences as one of the "Little Rock Nine" who integrated Little Rock Central High School in 1957.
Subject:
Civilrightsmovements--United States
Creator:
Blackside, Inc.
Contributor:
Blackside, Inc., Bagwell, Orlando
Publisher:
Washington University in St. Louis, Blackside, Inc.
Filmed interview with Joseph Azbell conducted for Eyes on the Prize. Discussion centers on the Montgomery bus boycott, E. D. Nixon, and Martin Luther King Jr.
Subject:
Civilrightsmovements--United States
Creator:
Blackside, Inc.
Contributor:
Blackside, Inc., Crossley, Callie
Publisher:
Washington University in St. Louis, Blackside, Inc.
Filmed interview with Eliza Briggs and Harry Briggs, Sr. conducted for Eyes on the Prize. Discussion centers on the condition of segregated schools in South Carolina and their lawsuit against the state, which was combined with the Brown case in Kansas. Harry Briggs Sr. and Eliza Briggs were...Show full record
Subject:
Civilrightsmovements--United States
Creator:
Blackside, Inc.
Contributor:
Blackside, Inc., Vecchione, Judith
Publisher:
Washington University in St. Louis, Blackside, Inc.
Filmed interview with Harry Briggs Jr. for Eyes on the Prize. He discussed conditions in segregated schools in South Carolina, his parents' lawsuit, and retaliation against his family as a result of the suit.
Subject:
Civilrightsmovements--United States
Creator:
Blackside, Inc.
Contributor:
Blackside, Inc., Bagwell, Orlando
Publisher:
Washington University in St. Louis, Blackside, Inc.
Interview with Amzie Moore conducted for America, They Loved You Madly, a precursor to Eyes on the Prize. Discussion centers on life under segregation, his activism, and cases of lynching that he investigated, including the Emmett Till case.
Subject:
Civilrightsmovements--United States
Creator:
Blackside, Inc.
Contributor:
Blackside, Inc., Richardson, Judy
Publisher:
Washington University in St. Louis, Blackside, Inc.
