Eyes on the Prize (2): Fighting Back (1957-1962) American Experience : Season 19 Episode 2
Not Rated PBS 3h 43m
Aired: October 9th, 2006 @ 9:00 PM EST on PBS
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.
