Eyes on the Prize: America's Civil Rights Years 1954-1965: A Companion Volume to the PBS Television Series - Hardcover

Juan Williams

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0670814121 ISBN 13: 9780670814121

Publisher: Viking Penguin, 1987

Synopsis

America's civil Rights Years

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About the Author:

Juan Williams is an American journalist and a political analyst for Fox News. He also writes for several newspapers including the Washington Post, the New York Times, and the Wall Street Journal and was a senior news analyst for National Public Radio from 1999 until 2010.

Julian Bond is an American social activist, professor, writer, and politician with more than twenty years of service in Georgia’s legislative chambers. He was also the chairman of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People from 1998 until 2010.

From Publishers Weekly:

This liberally illustrated companion volume to an upcoming six-part PBS-TV series, produced by black filmmakers, offers a detailed account of the Civil Rights movement. Assisted by the film's production team, Washington Post national correspondent Williams singles out from the main political events, demonstrations and legal actions the stories of little-known activists, some of whom lost their lives fighting for political, social, economic and educational rights. Quotes from the students involved in the landmark 1954 Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka and Little Rock cases are recorded, as are those of a woman whose son was lynched and those of both black and white participants in sit-ins, Freedom Rides and marches, some of whom were badly beaten and jailed. An epilogue traces the lives of the movement's leaders and other activists since the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. 75,000 first printing; 60,000 ad/promo; BOMC and QPBC alternates; author tour.
Copyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: Viking Penguin
• Publication date: 1987
• ISBN 10: 0670814121
• ISBN 13: 9780670814121
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 300