In honor of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., we will host a screening of two episodes of “Eyes on the Prize: America’s Civil Rights Movement” at the Huss Project on MLK Day. Join us!
The Promised Land (1967-1968) – 7:00pm
Martin Luther King, Jr. stakes out new ground for himself and the fragmenting Civil Rights Movement. King opposes the war in Vietnam. His SCLC embarks on the Poor People’s Campaign. In the midst of organizing, King detours to support striking sanitation workers in Memphis, where he is assassinated. His death and the failure of his final campaign mark the end of a major stream of the movement.
A Nation of Law? (1968-1971) – 8:00pm
Black activism is increasingly met with a violent and unethical response from law enforcement agencies. In Chicago, two Black Panther Party leaders are killed by police acting on information supplied by an FBI informant. In the wake of Nixon’s call to “law and order,” arrests push the poor conditions at Attica to the limit; an inmate takeover calling attention to the conditions leaves 43 dead.
To learn more about the “Eyes on the Prize” series, visit the PBS web site: https://worldchannel.org/show/eyes-on-the-prize/
