Eyes on the Prize

Name: Fighting Back, 1957-1962
Released: 1987-01-28
Duration: 60 min

Season 1 • Episode 2: Fighting Back, 1957-1962 • Watch with subtitles

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Episode 2: Fighting Back, 1957-1962

January 28, 1987 • 60 min

States' rights loyalists and federal authorities collide in the 1957 battle to integrate Little Rock's Central High School, and again in James Meredith's 1962 challenge to segregation at the University of Mississippi. Both times, a Southern governor squares off with a U.S. president, violence erupts -- and integration is carried out.

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