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Fighting Back (1957-1962)

• 1986 ----- color ----- 58 min ----- vhs
• (Eyes on the Prize - America's Civil Rights Years series, Part 2) Follows the struggle for equality from the schoolroom to the courtroom and back as Blacks reject the existing system of "separate but equal" education. In 1954, the Supreme Court also rejects the system in its historic Brown vs. Board of Education decision. The legal battle won, in 1957 nine Black teenagers dare to integrate Little Rock's Central High School. In 1962, a resolute James Meredith enrolls at The University of Mississippi. Students, parents and lawyers unite to guarantee a better education and a better future for their children.
• Topics: (American Ethnic Studies: Afro-American, History: American, Sociology)

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