- Title:
- Eyes on the prize interviews
- Date of Original:
- 1954/1965
- Subject:
- Civil rights movements--United States
Civil rights workers--United States
African Americans--Civil rights
Interviews--Missouri--Saint Louis
African American civil rights workers--United States
African American newspaper editors--New York (State)--New York
Civic leaders--Alabama--Montgomery
African American civic leaders--Alabama--Montgomery
Boycotts--Alabama--Montgomery
Segregation in transportation--Alabama--Montgomery
Civil rights demonstrations--Georgia--Albany
Montgomery Improvement Association
African American clergy--Alabama
Women social reformers--Alabama--Montgomery
Clergy--Alabama
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Segregation in education--Arkansas--Little Rock
School integration--Arkansas--Little Rock
Central High School (Little Rock, Ark.)
Federal-state controversies--Arkansas
Federal-state controversies--Mississippi
College integration--Mississippi--Oxford
Segregation in higher education--Mississippi--Oxford
Race riots--Mississippi--Oxford
Sit-ins--Southern States
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (U.S.)
Freedom Rides, 1961
Congress of Racial Equality
Civil rights movements--Tennessee--Nashville
Civil rights demonstrations--Tennessee--Nashville
Segregation in transportation--Southern States
Civil rights movements--Georgia--Albany
Albany Movement (Albany, Ga.)
Project C, Birmingham, Ala., 1963
Civil rights movements--Alabama--Birmingham
Civil rights demonstrations--Birmingham--Alabama
March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, Washington, D.C., 1963
Civil rights demonstrations--Washington (D.C.)
White Citizens councils--Mississippi
African Americans--Politics and government
Mississippi--Race relations
Race relations
Selma-Montgomery Rights March, 1965
Voter registration--United States
African Americans--Suffrage
Governors--Alabama
Civil rights demonstrations--Alabama--Selma
Civil rights movements--Alabama--Selma - People:
- Abernathy, Ralph, 1926-1990
Adams, Victoria Gray, 1926-2006
Anderson, William G., 1927-
Bailey, Melvin
Barry, Marion, 1936-2014
Beals, Melba
Bevel, James L. (James Luther), 1936-2008
Blackwell, Unita, 1933-
Briggs, Eliza, -1998
Briggs, Harry, -1986
Brownell, Herbert, Jr., 1904-1996
Campbell, Will D.
Carter, Robert L., 1917-2012
Clark, Jim
Clark, Kenneth Bancroft, 1914-2005
Dennis, David J., Sr.
Diggs, Charles C.
Doar, John, 1921-
Farmer, James, 1920-
Faubus, Orval Eugene, 1910-1994
Forman, James, 1928-2005
Gaston, A. G. (Arthur George), 1892-1996
Green, Ernest G. (Ernest Gideon), 1941-
Guyot, Lawrence, 1939-
Hayden, Casey
Hayden, Tom
Johnston, Erle
Katzenbach, Nicholas deB. (Nicholas deBelleville), 1922-2012
King, Coretta Scott, 1927-2006
Lawson, James M., 1928-
Leonard, Frederick
Lewis, John, 1940-2020
Mann, Floyd H., 1920-1996
Marshall, Burke, 1922-
Mondale, Walter F., 1928-
Moore, Amzie, 1911-1982
Moses, Robert Parris
Motley, Constance Baker, 1921-
Nash, Diane, 1938-
Nixon, Edgar Daniel
Orris, Peter
Parks, Rosa, 1913-2005
Patterson, John Malcolm, 1921-
Pritchett, Laurie, 1926-2000
Armstrong, James, 1923-2009
Robinson, Amelia Boynton, 1911-
Robinson, Jo Ann Gibson, 1912-
Rustin, Bayard, 1912-1987
Seigenthaler, John, 1927-2014
Sherrod, Charles, 1937-
Shores, Arthur D. (Arthur Davis), 1904-1996
Shuttlesworth, Fred L., 1922-2011
Simmons, William J., 1916-
Smith, Linda Brown
Turner, Albert, 1936-2000
Valeriani, Richard
Vann, David J., 1928-2000
Vivian, C. T.
Walker, Wyatt Tee
Wallace, George C. (George Corley), 1919-1998
Watkins, Hollis, 1941-
Wisdom, J. Minor, 1905-1999
Young, Andrew, 1932-
Azbell, Joe
Bash, James H.
Carey, Gordon R., 1932-
Carter, Hodding
Clark, Charles, 1925-
Coleman, William
Cox, Courtland, 1941-
Daniels, Carl
Donaldson, Ivanhoe
Durr, Virginia Foster
Ellis, Robert B.
Ellwanger, Joseph
Engstrom, Harold
Evans, Don
Evers, Darrell, 1953-2001
Evers-Williams, Myrlie
Gilmore, Georgia, 1920-1990
Greeley, Dana McLean, 1908-
Harris, Wendell
Hicks, James L., 1916-1986
Huie, William Bradford, 1910-1986
Jackson, Rutha Mae
Jackson, Willie Hill
Jones, Curtis
Jones, Donie
Kellum, J. W.
Lecky, Marcia Webb
Lee, Rudolph
Lewis, Rufus A. (Rufus Andrew), 1906-1999
Lillard, Leo
Miller, Orloff W.
Montgomery, Leola
Peck, James
Nesbitt, Gussie
Nelson, Rachel West
Rains, Craig
Rauh, Joseph L., 1911-
Reese, Frederick
Robertson, Jan
Schweid, Bernie
Smitherman, Joseph
Venable, Vanessa
Waring, Thomas R.
Webb, Sheyann
Williams, Robert F. (Robert Franklin), 1925-1996
Wilson, Paul E., 1913-2001
Wofford, Harris
Yarborough, Ralph Webster, 1903- - Location:
- United States, Alabama, Dallas County, 32.32597, -87.10648
United States, Alabama, Jefferson County, 33.55431, -86.89649
United States, Alabama, Montgomery County, 32.22026, -86.20761
United States, Alabama, Montgomery County, Montgomery, 32.36681, -86.29997
United States, Arkansas, Pulaski County, Little Rock, 34.74648, -92.28959
United States, Georgia, Dougherty County, 31.53337, -84.21625
United States, Mississippi, 32.75041, -89.75036
United States, Mississippi, Lafayette County, 34.35675, -89.48492
United States, Mississippi, Lafayette County, Oxford, 34.3665, -89.51925
United States, Mississippi, Leflore County, 33.55052, -90.30106
United States, Mississippi, Leflore County, Greenwood, 33.51623, -90.17953
United States, Southern States, 33.346678, -84.119434
United States, Tennessee, Davidson County, 36.17069, -86.77753
United States, Tennessee, Davidson County, Nashville, 36.16589, -86.78444 - Medium:
- interviews
sound recordings
transcripts - Type:
- InteractiveResource
- Description:
- The Eyes on the Prize Interviews collection provides full-text access to transcripts of interviews filmed for the PBS Eyes on the Prize documentary series that premiered January 21, 1987. Eyes on the Prize was produced by Blackside, Inc., the largest African-American-owned film production company of its time. Currently the collection contains the interviews that were conducted for the first six episodes of the series, which provides eye-witness accounts of the American Civil Rights Movement from 1954 to 1965. These interviews are part of the larger Henry Hampton Collection that resides in the Film and Media Archive.
The Civil Rights Digital Library received support from a National Leadership Grant for Libraries awarded to the University of Georgia by the Institute of Museum and Library Services for the aggregation and enhancement of partner metadata. - Metadata URL:
- http://digital.wustl.edu/e/eop/browse.html
- Rights Holder:
- Material is free to use for research purposes only. If researcher intends to use transcripts for publication, please contact Washington University's Film and Media Archive for permission to republish. Please use preferred citation given in the transcript.
Copyright Washington University Libraries 2004 - Original Collection:
- Henry Hampton Collection, Film and Media Archive, Washington University in St. Louis.
- Contributing Institution:
- Washington University (Saint Louis, Mo.). Libraries. Special Collections. Film & Media Archive
- Rights:
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