Eyes on the Prize : America's Civil Rights Years

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Statement of responsibility: a production of Blackside ; creator and executive producer, Henry Hampton ; series writer, Steve Fayer ; series producer, Jon Else ; executive producer for American experience, Mark Samels ; WGBH Boston ; PBS

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Summary: The definitive story of the Civil Rights era from the point of view of the ordinary men and women whose extraordinary actions launched a movement that changed the fabric of American life, and embodied a struggle whose reverberations are felt today

Credits note: Associate producers, Llewellyn M. Smith, Prudence Arndt ; edited by Daniel Eisenberg, Jeanne Jordan, Charles Scott ; senior researcher, Laurie Kahn-Leavitt ; camera, Jon Else [and others] ; theme music produced, arranged and performed by Bernice Johnson Reagon ; series title animation, Colossal Pictures ; academic advisors, Wiley Branton, Clayborne Carson, John Dittmer, Tony Freyer, David Garrow, Paul Gaston, Vincent Harding, Darlene Clark Hine, Steve Lawson, Genna Rae McNeil, Aldon Morris, J. Mills Thornton, Howard Zinn

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