Más detalles

Descripción

404 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm

Bibliografía

Includes bibliographical references (pages 385-389) and index.

Contenido

Introduction -- Cave painting: 1940-67 -- Racism is like a loaded gun: 1968-78 -- America, we loved you madly: 1978-82 -- Last visionary standing: 1983-85 -- The revolution will be televised: 1985 -- Mother ship -- Not the other man's county: fall 1985 -- On the road: 1985-86 -- Mississippi goddamn: 1963, 1964, 1985 -- Crossroads: 1964 -- Emmett Till's hometown: winter 1985 -- Hunter-gatherers: winter 1985-86 -- True south? -- Messy history: 1986 -- The Selma show: 1986 -- It's our flag too: 1986 -- A great story -- A great healing machine: 1987 -- Will the circle be unbroken: 1998 -- Freedom is a constant struggle: 1998-2016 -- Epilogue.

Sumario

Presents the inside story of the making of one of the most important and influential TV shows in history and of its legacy as the film that reframed the entire history of the Civil Rights movement permanently.

Materia

Eyes on the prize (Television program)

Hampton, Henry, 1940-1998 -- Criticism and interpretation.

Civil rights movements -- United States -- History -- 20th century.

African Americans on television.

Race relations on television.

United States -- Race relations.

Otro Título

Henry Hampton and eyes on the prize, the landmark television series that reframed the civil rights movement

Otro formato:

Online version: Else, Jon, 1944- author. True south New York : Viking, 2017 9781101980958

ISBN

9781101980934 (hardcover)

1101980931 (hardcover)