The following is a list of further resources to consult regarding the series and production history of Eyes on the Prize, as well as how to access the series. Additionally, resources are listed that cover the major historical events and themes covered in the episodes.  

The first series of Eyes can now be streamed online via HBO Max and Amazon Prime Video, and other plaforms including Kanopy, as well as purchased on DVD. Unfortunately, due to rights issues, the second series is not as widely available but it can be viewed  on Kanopy, but only if a particular school or public library has access to the program. 

 

General (Blackside/Henry Hampton, Civil Rights)

• True South: Henry Hampton and "Eyes on the Prize," the Landmark Television Series That Reframed the Civil Rights Movement by Jon Else (2017)   
• Voices of Freedom: An Oral History of the Civil Rights Movement from the 1950s Through the 1980s by Henry Hampton and Steve Fayer (2011) 
• The Eyes on the Prize Civil Rights Reader: Documents, Speeches, and Firsthand Accounts from the Black Freedom Struggle, edited by Claybourne Carson, David J. Garrow and more (1991)
• Making Eyes on the Prize: Reframing the Civil Rights Movement
  • A panel discussion from The March On Washington Film Festival, 2020. Participants were Sam Pollard, Jon Else, and Judy Richardson. 
• Making Eyes on the Prize: an Oral History - The Ford Foundation
• History of Blackside Productions - Black Public Media  

 

Documentary/Film Studies

• Leger Grindon, " Q & A: Poetics of the Documentary Film Interview," The Velvet Light Trap, Number 60, Fall 2007, pp. 4-12.
• Struggles for Representation: African American Documentary Film and Video, edited by Phyllis Rauch Klotman and Janet K. Cutler (1999)

 

Black Panther Party 

Memoirs/Biographies 

• A Taste of Power: A Black Woman's Story by Elaine Brown (1993)  
• Seize the Time: The Story of the Black Panther Party and Huey P. Newton by Bobby Seale (1996) 

Historical Nonfiction 

• Black against Empire: The History and Politics of the Black Panther Party by Joshua Bloom and Waldo E. Martin Jr. (2016) 
• Black Power Afterlives: The Enduring Significance of the Black Panther Party, edited by Diane Fujino and Matef Harmachis (2020) 

 

Fred Hampton 

• From the Bullet to the Ballot: The Illinois Chapter of the Black Panther Party and Racial Coalition Politics in Chicago by Jakobi Williams (2015)
• The Murder of Fred Hampton, a documentary by Howard Alk and Mike Gray (1971)

 

Malcolm X 

• The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcolm X and Alex Haley (1965) 
• The Sword and the Shield: The Revolutionary Lives of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr. by Peniel Joseph (2020) 
• Fighting for Our Place in the Sun: Malcolm X and the Radicalization of the Black Student Movement 1960-1973 by Richard Benson (2014) 

 

Student Nonviolent Coordinating Comittee (SNCC)

• The First Six Years of SNCC

 

Boston School Desegregation

• From Brown to Boston: Desegregation in Education 1954-1974 by Leon Jones (1979)
• From Little Rock to Boston by George Metcalf (1983)
• School Desegregation Research Guide (Umass Boston)
• "We Saved the City": Black Struggles for Educational Equality in Boston, 1960-1976 by Jeanne F. Theoharis
• Can We Talk? Learning from Boston's Busing/Desegregation Crisis (Documentary)

 

Miami Riot of 1980

• The Miami Riot of 1980 : Crossing the Bounds by Bruce Porter and Marvin Dunn (1984)

 

Ocean Hill-Brownsville School District

• Inside Ocean Hill–Brownsville: A Teacher's Education, 1968-69 by Charles S. Issacs (2014)

 

National Black Political Convention

• The Defeat of Black Power: Civil Rights and the National Black Political Convention of 1972 by Leonard N. Moore (2019)
• Nationtime by William Greaves (Documentary)

 

Detroit Riots of 1967

• Violence in the Model City: The Cavanagh Administration, Race Relations, and the Detroit Riot of 1967 by Sidney Fine (2007)

 

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. after Selma

• We Shall Overcome by Peter J. Albert (1993)
• Bearing the Cross: Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference by David Garrow (2004)

 

Poor People's Campaign/Resurrection City

• Resurrection City, 1968 by Jill Freedman (1970, republished in 2018)
• King and the Other America by Sylvie Laurent (2019)

 

Chicago Freedom Movement

• Martin Luther King Jr. and Civil Rights Activism in the North edited by Mary Lou Finley et. al. (2019)

 

Southern Christian Leadership Conference

• Southern Christian Leadership Conference - About