Eyes on the Prize

S1 E31987

Ain't Scared of Your Jails, 1960-1961

Episode Synopsis

Black college students take a leadership role in the civil rights movement as lunch counter sit-ins spread across the South. "Freedom Riders" also try to desegregate interstate buses, but they are brutally attacked as they travel.

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