Eyes on the Prize

Awakenings 1954-1956

Season 1, Episode 1 of 6

Individual acts of courage inspire black Southerners to fight for their rights: Mose Wright testifies against the white men who murdered young Emmett Till and Rosa Parks refuses to give up her bus seat to a white man in Montgomery, Alabama.

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4/16/2021
10:30 p.m.
1/19/2022
11 p.m.
1/15/2023
9 p.m.
1/16/2023
1 a.m.
1/17/2023
1 p.m.
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