Eyes on the Prize

By

Matt Henry

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Eye On The Prize Episode 1
In the first episode, they proceed to tell you about how in the 1950s and 60s they
were fighting a kind of battle or otherwise known as a movement For civil rights.
They were completely wiped out of thinking that they were equal human beings.
They took it for granted they wanted to change it. Black people weren't allowed to
look at a white woman without having to suffer consequences.

One story they tell this episode is a boy was talking to his friends and he saw a
white girl in a store and they told him to go talk to her and he got in a lot of trouble.
The owner of the store kicked him out and told his parents. They made the black
owner of the store to find the boy and they persecuted him. They ended up killing
him sadly..

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Eyes On The Prize Episode 2
In 1954, the Supreme Court ruled that black children were allowed to go to school with white children.
The south did not allow it. Kids were banned from schools and it made it extremely hard for them to get
equal Educations. The Supreme Court ruled in a case called brown vs board of education that
segregated schools were unconstitutional under the 14th amendment. For many southerners saw that it
was against their traditions. In that decision, they didn't believe that it was a good decision. So they
rebelled. It frightened all the black people.

A girl named Audrey Lucy was admitted to the schools of Alabama. After she arrived, students and
townspeople started a riot. They suspended her temporarily for her own protection. At a press
conference. She said that they pretty much made themselves look stupid for doing what they did. They
said that you can't stop the prejudices of 300 years of racism over night. She came back to school and
they expelled her anyways because she said they were using the riots to keep her out. She won the court
case but didn't go very far after that.

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 Eye On The Prize Episode 3.
As the episodes go on, I have seen that the white students still have no part in wanting black
people to go to school with them. They used methods of nonviolence is to send a message
that they are not as bad as they depict them. Nashville, Tennessee, was a growing city.
Hotels, buses schools and restaurants water fountains were segregated. In the civil rights
movement they were still Figuring out ways to nonviolently protest, so why people would get
the message. John Lewis Angela Butler and Diane Nash led students to Nashville's first sit
in. the protesters were sitting in a restaurant and they were denied service so they were
studying on how to make it so they could one day. Set in the same restaurant equally as a
white person. They took their seats as politely as possible they waited to see if they would
get any response at all. 20 of the individuals got in a fight at the white people chased them
out.Super racist
They were strongly protesting for 3 weeks before, they ended up getting over encumbered
with white townsmen. That ended up fighting them and them out.
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Eyes On The Prize Episode 4.
On January 14 1963. George Wallas was the mayor at the time of the movement.
He is the one who made it a lot harder for the black people at the time to protest.
The way they have been protesting. They haven't shown any form of violence.
They are trying to establish to make the white people seem like they were and that
they are humans like the rest of us. They obviously did not understand. A lot of
riots and protests have led to hundreds of people getting arrested and beaten.
Things were going to change. They are heart set on it and knew that they could
accomplish what they did if they kept moving in a non violent pace.

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Eyes On The Prize Episode 5
In 1969, the white people still could not understand the change. It has been the
same way for about 300 years. Until this point in time they could not come to the
understanding that things are about to change. They still very racist and inhumane
forms of compensation. The town mayor at the time of somewhere in Tennessee
was the face of racism in their eyes of the towns. People. So they ended up
making him the reason that nothing was going to change in the right manner for
the black people.

They soon realized that they are not going to get any change in law without
electing black people into legislation. They were trying to elect either a fair white
man or a black man in order to show the people that things would be better and
would change. Knowingly that the black people couldn't read or write because they
didn't get a proper education at the time, which they were also trying to change.

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Eyes On The Prize Episode 6.
On disturber. 14th1964 the civil rights movement progressed to 10 years and Dr.
Martin Luther king won the Nobel peace prize. There was more writing and they
were slowly wondering if their tactics of nonviolence were going to continue and if
it was the way to continue. More Luther king made a speech. He said that it was
the best way for them to move on because that is the only way that they could give
their lives and still have a movement after they die if they do die.

I came back to the voter's table. The candidates used racism and non racism.
Weird tactics of trying to get the most votes. White people were still being racist in
order to get the white people vote and black people were going for the peaceful
ones. The majority was white because they are the ones who could read and write.
Racist white people usually ended up winning the elections.

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Eyes On The Prize Episode 7
In this episode, there was a huge black Muslim society that was just being
uncovered by the media. A preacher started converting huge groups of them
by making them feel as if they were not in the situation they were currently in
segregation wise. To the Muslims. At the time he made it, as if it people
weren't as bad as they were and to make them look stronger. His name was
Malcome x. He will talk about Mohammed and I guess the glorious ways.
Malcome said that we are not violent with people who are not violent with us.
And we are nonviolent with people who are violent with us. Malcolm X
represented the possibilities of violence with nonviolence.

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Eyes On The Prize Episode 8
Once again I have began watching another episode of eyes on the prize and this
one is about Dr. Martin Luther king. Doctor Martin Luther King named Chicago the
capital of the freedom movement where they held a rally at the soldier field in
Chicago. One of the things, she said, is that it is abominable to antagonize social
evil. They sang and had a lot of parades when Dr Martin Luther king. The next day,
they marched to city hall and the movement leaders confronted the mayor in order
to try and stop segregation. The mayor replied that he cannot stop something
overnight but there is no commitment made to stop what's been going on around
Chicago.

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Eyes On The Prize Episode 9
In black men and women at the time seek power. The choice to have power over their own
lives. Power was the difference between blacks and whites in America at the time. There
was still trying to find out if people would start voting for a candidate that was black. This was
still one of their Main objectives in order to make things right. They're looking for a good
black mayor with the best qualifications in order To Make an order that will pass. One man
even said that he will have regular traits and abilities, but he will just happen to be black, so
there would be no reason not to vote for this guy. In my opinion, then going towards this was
probably the best way they could have done it because it is very witty and it is not going to
stop and last they do something in order to change the laws about it. A majority of black
Americans lived in the cities. And they thought, even just a Marlon could change something
in that nature at the time. But now it It would be even harder in order to. An act? Something
of that nature at the time.

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Eyes On The Prize Episode 10.

Dr Martin Luther King begins talking about the us government was spending way more
in Vietnam than they were on poor Americans, opposing the war was also putting the
civil rights movement at risk because a lot of people supported the worth of time as
well. Plenty of people have already taken that risk by they gather in groups to ask king
if he would join them. A pastor spoke to Dr. Monte Luther king about going to his
church for that Sunday because he was going to speak about Vietnam. Martin Luther
king said I will not just go to your church. I will be sitting in the front seat. The
pastor called Martin Luther King up and he also gave a speech about what was going
on there and in Vietnam. At the end of that speech the whole entire Crowd took a
moment of silence for ten minutes.

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Eyes On The Prize Episode 11.
White people have really Harsh laws against the black community. I see. In the 1960s,
black people Lived on their own standards because white people standards weren't good
standards. The black community demanded you have respect on their own terms at this
point. A black man won a gold medal in the Olympics. Clay gained even more respect
because he won in the first round. Knock out. Liston was an absolute thug at the time in
the eyes of white people. Why people couldn't take in that this black guy was beating all of
their white people. The white people began talking about how they were always going to
his boxing matches just to not support him. He became close friends with Malcome. Clay
was good friends with Malcolm because he was also a Muslim and Malcolm was a great
Muslim supporter as well as a Muslim teacher. Clay continued to win fights and gained the
respect of thousands and thousands of people. He was a gigantic step in the movement
towards civil rights at the time of this. Clay was pretty cocky and that was good because
they needed a strong advocate at the time. I have a us questions.

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Eyes On The Prize Episode 12
The war in Vietnam has pulverized the nation due to deaths and dying because of
the draft, everybody's children were dying. Everybody had a strong perception of
radicalization. The Black panther party was a strong advocate in the movement
towards civil rights. Directives issued by FBI headquarters a few weeks after the
elections called for quote imaginative and hard hitting counterintelligence
measures aimed at crippling the black panther party. The black panther party
refused to go unheard. But black people at the time were easily unheard. Even
though those were the circumstances they still fought as hard as they can in order
to have a voice.

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Eric Hampton ended up being the leader of the like Panthers. People understood
where they were trying to go politically. They were very direct and ended up being
thought of as hostile. They understood that the second amendment right was the
right to bear arms and that they were going to protect themselves if that is what it
ended Up coming white people didn't think it could happen and many people didn't
think it was right. That was what they had to end up resorting to because they
weren't going heard. Most of them agreed with the black panther party because
they were actually progressively going towards freedom but most of the people
were too lazy to join them.

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Eyes On The Prize Episode 13
In Boston, Massachusetts, one in four students were black. Zero teachers were
black and zero principles were black and that was huge at the time because there
was no equality for the children and they were just getting beat up every day, it
was horrible and they were just trying to overcome it. Community activists could
not force the committee to acknowledge the problem. They responded with a
variety of strategies throughout the mid 60s. And they began to protest, but short
term protest was not enough. On they sued the Town and won. But the school
refused to enforce the law that they had to treat them 100 percent equal so
parents took him to their own hands. They set up programs to empty white person
seats at white schools.

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Eyes On The Prize Episode 14
Not only black people were discriminated at this era, so were Cubans and people
from Haiti, but mostly they were black too. White people were harassed for liking
and supporting the movement for civil rights in the USA. Will America move
forward towards this justice or will it back away? Most of the black population lived
in downtown Miami in Florida, There were huge franchises by black people over
there and all sorts and there was a pretty good black power over there. Most of
them felt Like they needed the responsibility to make things equal for everybody
again because they had the power for it.

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14 Cont.
It was a focal point for black people because this is where it started to slow down
on the racism. The segregation Definitely mess with their night time activities, they
let them drink at the bar, but they didn't let them stay at the hotel or ride in a taxi
home. Most of them ended up getting arrested for public intoxication and brutally
harassed in daylight they ended up still being second class citizens. Black people
ended up taking office and making it easier for Black people. It ended up still being
super racist. A huge highway was under construction so it made a lot of black
people lose their homes, which a man tried to stop.

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