Multimedia Collection
Awakenings: 1954-56
(Eyes on the Prize series)
VHS
60 minutes
E185.61 .E941 1987 no.1
Tells the story of two events that helped to focus the nation's attention on the rights of black Americans to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness: the 1955 lynching in Mississippi of 14-year old Emmett Till and the 1955-56 Montgomery, Alabama boycott that forced the desegregation of public buses.
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