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Eyes on the Prize: America at the Racial Crossroads 1965–1985 Production Papers

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Identifier: FMA-FMA0002e

Eyes on the Prize: America at the Racial Crossroads 1965–1985 Production Papers forms a portion of the larger Henry Hampton Collection. Included are pre-production materials, research materials, photographs, stock footage information, music research, interview transcripts, and production and editing materials toward all eight episodes of Eyes on the Prize II. In addition, the collection includes administrative and publicity and outreach materials.

Additional material related to Eyes on the Prize II: America at the Racial Crossroads 1965–1985 Production Papers are located here. Also, digitized interviews are available here.

Episode 1: The Time Has Come, 1964–1966

Internal number: 201

Directed by James A. DeVinney and Madison D. Lacy

Written by James A. DeVinney and Madison D. Lacy

Original airdate: January 15, 1990

Description: Examines a leading member of the Nation of Islam - Malcolm X. The film also chronicles the political organizing work of the Lowndes County Freedom Organization (LCFO) in Alabama and the shooting of James Meredith during the March Against Fear.

Interviewees: Ossie Davis, Mike Wallace, Sonia Sanchez, Alex Haley, John Lewis, A. Peter Bailey, Kwame Ture (Stokely Carmichael), John Hulett, John Jackson, Floyd McKissick, David Dawley, Artie Schardt, and Cleveland Sellers



Episode 2: Two Societies, 1965–1968

Internal number: 202

Directed by Sheila Curran Bernard and Samuel D. Pollard

Written by Sheila Curran Bernard, Steve Fayer, and Samuel D. Pollard

Original airdate: January 22, 1990

Description: Follows Martin Luther King Jr. during the Chicago Freedom Movement in Illinois and the tumultuous Detroit Riot of 1967 in Michigan.

Interviewees: Linda Bryant-Hall, Andrew Young, Ed Marciniak, Clory Bryant, Rev. Jesse Jackson, Minnie Dunlap, Nancy Jefferson, John McDermott, Albert Raby, Rev. Bernard Lafayette Jr., Rosemary Porter, Robert Lucas, Helen Kelly, Ron Scott, Grant Friley, Herb Boyd, John Nichols, Dr. Arthur Johnson, Richard Strichartz, Eleanor Josaitis, Edward Vaughn, Albert Wilson, Gov. George Romney, Roger Wilkins, Cyrus Vance, Sgt. Howard Holland, and John Conyers



Episode 3: Power!, 1966–1968

Internal number: 203

Directed by Louis J. Massiah and Terry Kay Rockefeller

Written by Steve Fayer, Louis J. Massiah, and Terry Kay Rockefeller

Original airdate: January 29, 1990

Description: Chronicles the election of Carl Stokes as the mayor of Cleveland and the first African American to become mayor of a major U.S. city. The episode also covers the formation of the Black Panther Party (BPP) and community control of the Ocean Hill-Brownsville school district in Brooklyn.

Interviewees: Geraldine Williams, Carl Stokes, Charles Butts, Thompson J. Gaines, Seth Taft, Huey Newton, Bobby Seale, Richard Jensen, Emory Douglas, Charles O'Brien, Elaine Brown, Rev. C. Herbert Oliver, Rhody McCoy, Karriema Jordan, Sandra Feldman, Father John Powis, Delores Torres, Jitu Weusi (Les Campbell), and Fred Naumann



Episode 4: The Promised Land, 1967–1968

Internal number: 204

Directed by Jacqueline Shearer and Paul Stekler

Written by Steve Fayer, Jacqueline Shearer and Paul Stekler

Original airdate: February 5, 1990

Description: Chronicles the final years of Martin Luther King Jr.'s life. The episode also covers the Poor People's Campaign and Resurrection City in Washington, D.C.

Interviewees: Kwame Ture (Stokely Carmichael), Michael Harrington, Rev. Andrew Young, Harry McPherson, Harry Belafonte, Marian Logan, Marian Wright Edelman, Coretta Scott King, William Rutherford, Taylor Rodgers, Jerred Blanchard, Rev. James Smith, James Figgs, William Lucy, Juanita Abernathy, Rev. Ralph Abernathy, Jesse Jackson, and Daniel Schorr



Episode 5: Ain't Gonna Shuffle No More, 1964–1972

Internal number: 205

Directed by Sheila Curran Bernard and Samuel D. Pollard

Written by Sheila Curran Bernard, Steve Fayer, and Samuel D. Pollard

Original airdate: February 15, 1990

Description: Chronicles the emergence of boxer Muhammad Ali, the student movement at Howard University, and the National Black Political Convention in Gary, Indiana.

Interviewees: Sonia Sanchez, Edwin Pope, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (Lew Alcindor), Angelo Dundee, Jabir Herbert Muhammad, Floyd Patterson, 1st Lt. Steven B. Dunkley, Harry Belafonte, Tony Gittens, Paula Giddings, Robin Gregory, Fred Black, Adrienne Manns Israel, Professor Charles Epps Jr., Kenneth Clark, Arthur Eve, Rev. Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr., Mary Hightower, Rev. Jesse Jackson, Richard Hatcher, Amiri Baraka, and Willie Felder



Episode 6: A Nation of Law?, 1968–1971

Internal number: 206

Directed by Louis J. Massiah, Thomas Ott, and Terry Kay Rockefeller

Written by Steve Fayer, Louis J. Massiah, Thomas Ott and Terry Kay Rockeller

Original airdate: February 19, 1990

Description: Chronicles the leadership and murder of Fred Hampton of the Black Panther Party (BPP) in Chicago. The second part of the film covers the Attica Prison rebellion in Attica, New York.

Interviewees: William O'Neal, Elaine Brown, Jerris Leonard, Father George Clements, Nancy Jefferson, Howard Saffold, Marion Stamps, Deborah Johnson, Bobby Rush, Bobby Seale, Flint Taylor, Angela Davis, Michael Smith, Frank "Big Black" Smith, Amiri Bakara, Herbert X. Blyden, Russell G. Oswald, Arthur O. Eve, Tom Wicker, and LaVerne Barkley



Episode 7: The Keys to the Kingdom, 1974–1980

Internal number: 207

Directed by Jacqueline Shearer and Paul Stekler

Written by Steve Fayer, Jacqueline Shearer and Paul Stekler

Original airdate: February 26, 1990

Description: Examines the Boston school desegregation crisis involving busing in Massachusetts. The second part of the film chronicles the election of Maynard Jackson as mayor of Atlanta and the first African American to become mayor of a major city in the southern United States. The last part of the film examines affirmative action and the landmark United States Supreme Court ruling Regents of the University of California v. Bakke (1978).

Interviewees: Mary Frances Berry, Jean McGuire, Thomas Atkins, Ruth Batson, Juanita Wade, Robert Kiley, Ellen Jackson, Alan Lupo, Kevin White, Jane DuWors, Tracy Amalfitano, Phyllis Ellison, Kathleen Stapleton, Maynard Jackson, Ethel Mae Matthews, Dillard Munford, Walter Huntley, Maggie Thomas, Emma Darnell, Willie Bolden, Toni Johnson-Chavis, Robert Links, and Eleanor Holmes Norton



Episode 8: Back to the Movement, 1979–mid 80s

Internal number: 208

Directed by James A. DeVinney and Madison D. Lacy

Written by James A. DeVinney, Steve Fayer, and Madison D. Lacy

Original airdate: March 5, 1990

Description: Covers the Miami riot of 1980 and the election of Harold Washington as the first African-American mayor of Chicago. The film finishes with an overview of the Civil Rights Movement and its effect upon the United States and the world.

Interviewees: Dewey W. Knight Sr., Lonnie R. Lawrence, Clyde Killens, Dr. John O. Brown, Dorothy W. Graham, Georgia Jones Ayres, Jessie J. McCrary Jr., Frank Legree, Frederica Watts McDuffie, Louis McDuffie, Capt. Dale P. Bowlin, Otis Pitts Jr., Renault A. Robinson, Nancy Jefferson, Jane Byrne, Marion Stamps, Slim Coleman, Lu Palmer, Edward G. Gardner, Joseph Gardner, Rev. Jesse Jackson, Rosie Mars, Rev. C. T. Vivian, Unita Blackwell, and Eleanor Holmes Norton

Dates

  • Creation: circa 1987-1990

Creator

Conditions Governing Access

Some restrictions. Please contact Curator for more information. Restrictions in box 15 and 83.

Conditions Governing Use

Users of the collection must read and agree to abide by the rules and procedures set forth in the Materials Use Policies.

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Extent

98 linear feet

103 boxes

Source of Acquisition

The collection was obtained from the Civil Rights Project, Inc. in 2001 and subsequent materials were obtained from Blackside, Inc. in 2002 and 2003.

Related Materials

Additional material related to Eyes on the Prize II: America at the Racial Crossroads 1965–1985 Production Papers are located here. Also, digitized interviews are available here.

Processing Information

Processed by Allison Segura, 2018-2020. Completed by Sarah Schnuriger in 2021.

Title
Eyes on the Prize: America at the Racial Crossroads 1965–1985 Production Papers
Author
Allison Segura
Description rules
dacs
Language of description
eng

Collecting Area Details

Part of the Film & Media Archive Collecting Area

Contact:
Andy Uhrich
West Campus East Building. Lower Level (MSC 1061-141-B)
7425 Forsyth Blvd
Clayton MO 63105 US
(314) 935-5495