Eyes on the prize : America's civil rights years, 1954-1965 / Juan Williams, with the Eyes on the prize production team ; introduction by Julian Bond.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Williams, Juan.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African Americans--Civil rights--History.

African Americans.

African Americans--Civil rights.

History.

Physical Description:

xviii, 309 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Edition:

Twenty-fifth anniversary edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Penguin Books, 2013.

Summary:

This compelling oral history of the first ten years of the Civil Rights movement is a tribute to the men and women, both black and white, who took part in the fight for justice and kept their eyes on the prize of freedom.

Contents:

God bless the child: the story of school desegregation

Standing for justice: Mississippi and the Till case

We're not moving to the back, Mr. Blake: the Montgomery bus boycott

Hall monitors from the 101st: the Little Rock story

Down freedom's main line: the movement's next generation

Freedom in the air: the lessons of Albany and Birmingham

March on Washington

Mississippi: Freedom has never been free

Selma: the bridge to freedom

Epilogue.

Notes:

"A Robert Lavelle book."

"This edition with a new preface, introduction, and epilogue"--t.p. verso.

"The companion volume to the PBS television series"--Cover.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [305]-306 and index.

ISBN:

9780143124740

0143124749

OCLC:

857233580

Publisher Number:

99955074671