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Henry Hampton, Judith Vecchione et al, Eyes on the Prize: America's Civil Rights Years 1954-1965 Eyes on the prize is a six-part series on America's civil rights movement. The series chronicals the small and large victories and defeats of the movement for equal rights in America. It starts with the murder of Emmett Till in Mississippi, that brought the attention of the country to the South. It ends with the signing of the voting rights act into federal law by Lyndon Johnson. A second series chronicles 1964 to the 1970s. Henry Hampton and his team were universally acclaimed for their work, winning most of the highest awards in broadcast journalist. The documentary came at a time when the memory of the civil rights movement was fading in America for many and distant to a younger generation. The series has become a standard in schools, libraries and colleges. Eyes on the prize proves that television can be a more than worthy outlet for journalism. When the documentary was broadcast in 1987, much of the footage had not bee seen before. The producers used the shocking footage of brutality in the South with superb interviews of both the giants of the movement and the ordinary people affected. The film forum put in a paid notice in the New York Times when he died, "Henry brought to the craft of film making the conviction of the educator, the eye of the artist, the subtle intelligence of the historian, the determination of the inspired messenger." MORE: An obituary of Hampton |
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