Interviewee Information: K through Z
The following is an alphabetized list of persons interviewed for the second series of Eyes On The Prize. Under each name is small biographical summary and the episodes in which they appear. Click on a name to watch their interview.
K • L • M • N • O • P • R • S • T-V • W-Y
K
- Helen Kelly
- Episode 2
- Detroit resident during the Detroit riots of 1967.
- Robert Kiley
- Episode 7
- Deputy mayor during the Boston school desegregation crisis.
- Clyde Killens
- Episode 8
- Resident of Overtown, Miami at the time of the murder of Arthur McDuffie.
- Coretta Scott King
- Episode 4
- Civil rights leader and wife of Martin Luther King Jr.
- Dewey Knight
- Episode 8
- Resident of Overtown, Miami.
L
- Bernard LaFayette
- Episode 2
- Resident of Chicago and supporter of the Southern Christian Leadership Confrence. Played a key role in the attempt of nonviolent tactics in the north.
- Lonnie Lawrence
- Episode 8
- Friend of Arthur McDuffie, who was murdered by police in Miami.
- Frank Legree
- Episode 8
- Resident of Overtown, Miami.
- Jerris Leonard
- Episode 6
- Served as an Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division during the first Nixon administration.
- John Lewis
- Episode 1
- Major figure of the Civil Rights Movement and U.S. representative.
- Robert Links
- Episode 7
- Attorney involved with the Allan Bakke discrimination case against the University of California.
- Marian Logan
- Episode 4
- Worked with Martin Luther King Jr. in the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. One of the organizers of Resurrection City.
- Robert Lucas
- Episode 2
- Member of the Congress of Racial Equality, Chicago resident, and participant in the Cicero March in 1966.
- William Lucy
- Episode 4
- Participant in the Mempis Sanitation Worker strike.
- Alan Lupo
- Episode 7
- Journalist in Boston during the school desegregation crisis.
M
- Adrienne Manns-Israel
- Episode 5
- Howard University student.
- Bob Mants
- Episode 1
- Resident of Lowndes County, Alabama.
- Ed Marciniak
- Episode 2
- Chicago resident.
- Rosie Mars
- Episode 8
- Resident of Chicago and supporter of the Harold Washington mayoral campaign.
- Ethel Mae Matthews
- Episodes 4 and 7
- Ran for Atlanta city council in 1973.
- Josephine Mayes
- Episode 1
- Alabama resident and voting rights activist.
- Rhody McCoy
- Episode 3
- Superintendent of the Ocean Hill-Brownsville school district in New York City during the teacher strike.
- Jesse McCrary
- Episode 8
- Resident of Overtown, Miami.
- John McDermott
- Episode 2
- Participant in the Cicero March and supporter of the Chicago Freedom Movement.
- Frederica McDuffie
- Episode 8
- Married to Arthur McDuffie at the time of his murder by Miami law enforcement.
- Louis McDuffie
- Episode 8
- Brother of Arthur McDuffie.
- Jean McGuire
- Episode 7
- Teacher in Boston in the 60s' before the desegregation crisis.
- Floyd McKissick
- Episodes 1 and 2
- Civil rights activist and former leader of the Congress of Racial Equality.
- Harry McPherson
- Episode 4
- White House Counsel for President Johnson from 1966 to 1967.
- Evelyn Morash
- Episode 7
- White supporter of school desegregation in Boston.
- Jabir Herbert Muhammad
- Episode 5
- Muhammad Ali's longtime manager.
- Dillard Munford
- Episode 7
- Resident of Atlanta who did not support Maynard Jackson as mayor.
N
- Fred Nauman
- Episode 3
- Teacher in the Ocean-Hill Brownsville school district during the experiemental school project.
- Huey P. Newton
- Episode 3
- Founder of the Black Panther Party.
- John Nichols
- Episode 2
- Member of police leadership during the Detroit riots of 1967.
- Akua Njeri (formerly known as Deborah Johnson)
- Episode 6
- Chicago Black Panther Party member and Fred Hampton' partner.
- Eleanor Holmes Norton
- Episodes 7 and 8
- Civil rights activst involved in the anti-apartheid movement.
- Daisy Nunley
- Episode 2
- Resident of Detroit during the riots of 1967.
O
- Charles O'Brien
- Episode 3
- Former Chief Deputy Attorney General of California.
- C. Herbert Oliver
- Episode 3
- On the Governing Board of the Ocean Hill-Brownswille School District during the experiment with community oversight and the teacher strike.
- William O'Neal
- Episode 6
- FBI Informant in Chicago who infiltrated the Black Panthers to supply the FBI with information regarding the organization and Fred Hampton.
- Russell Oswald
- Episode 6
- Director of the New York Department of Corections during the 1971 Attica Prison Uprising.
P
- Lu Palmer
- Episode 8
- Chicago resident and member of the group Chicago Black United Communities.
- Floyd Patterson
- Episode 5
- Professional boxer at the same time as Muhammed Ali.
- Bill Perry
- Episode 8
- Civil rights leader in Miami and resident during the unrest after the murder of Arthur McDuffie.
- Otis Pitts
- Episode 8
- Black police officer who lived in Overtown, Miami.
- Edwin Pope
- Episode 5
- America sports journalist during the career of Muhammed Ali.
- Rosemary Porter
- Episode 2
- Resident of Chicago.
- Reverend John Powis
- Episode 3
- Worked on the Governing Board of the Ocean Hill-Brownsville School District during the community oversight experiment and the teachers strikes.
R
- Albert Raby
- Episode 2
- Resident of Chicago and local civil rights activist.
- Athalie Range
- Episode 8
- Resident of Miami during the unrest following the murder of Arthur McDuffie.
- Renault Robinson
- Episode 8
- Chicago civil rights activist and supporter of Harold Washington.
- Taylor Rogers
- Episode 4
- Participant in the 1968 Memphis Sanitation Workers Strike.
- George Romney
- Episode 2
- Governor of Michigan during the Detroit riots of 1967.
- Bobby Rush
- Episode 6
- Member of the Illinois Chapter of the Black Panther Party in Chicago.
- William Rutherford
- Epsiode 4
- Former Executive Director of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and close confidant of Martin Luther King, Jr.
S
- Howard Saffold
- Episode 6
- Black officer in the Chicago Police Department.
- Ruby Sales
- Episode 1
- Mississippi resident and member of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Comittee.
- Sonia Sanchez
- Episodes 1 and 5
- Poet and member of the Black Arts movement. Black Panther Party member from 1973 to 1975. Member of the Congress of Racial Equity.
- Arlie Schardt
- Episode 1
- Participant in the Meredith March and member of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference.
- Daniel Schorr
- Episode 4
- CBS journalist during the Civil Rights Movement.
- Ronald Scott
- Episode 2
- Resident of Detroit during the riots of 1967.
- Bobby Seale
- Episodes 3 and 6
- Founded the Black Panther Party with Huey P. Newton in Oakland, negotiator in the 1971 Attica Prison uprising and speaker at the National Black Political Convention in 1972.
- Cleveland Sellers
- Episode 1
- Civil rights activist and member of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Comittee.
- Betty Shabazz
- Episode 1
- Married to Malcolm X at the time of his assasination.
- Albert Shanker
- Episode 3
- Opposed to the Ocean Hill-Brownsville experiement and led the teacher strike as president of the United Federation of Teachers in New York.
- Frank "Big Black" Smith
- Episode 6
- Incarcerated individual at the Attica State Prison during the 1971 Uprising.
- Reverend James Smith
- Episode 4
- Supporter of Martin Luther King Jr.
- Michael Smith
- Epsiode 6
- Prison guard at the Attica State Correctional Facility who was held hostage during the Uprising of 1971.
- Marion Stamps
- Episodes 5, 6, and 8
- Supporter of the Black Panther Party in Chicago and housing activist.
- Kathy Stapleton
- Episode 7
- Student at South Boston High School during desegregation.
- Carl Stokes
- Episode 3
- Former mayor of Cleveland, Ohio from 1967 to 1971. First Black mayor of a major city.
- Richard Strichartz
- Episode 2
- Resident of Detroit during the 1967 riots.
T-V
- Seth Taft
- Episode 3
- Lost the 1967 Cleveland mayoral race to Carl Stokes.
- Calvin Taylor
- Episode 1
- Civil rights activist in Memphis, supporter of Martin Luther King, Jr.
- Flint Taylor
- Episode 6
- Attorney for the Chicago Black Panther Party.
- Maggie Thomas
- Episode 7
- Resident of Atlanta during the mayoral tenure of Maynard Jackson.
- Dolores Torres
- Episode 3
- Parent with children in the Ocean Hill-Brownsville experimental School District.
- Tom Turnipseed
- Worked on the George Wallace campagin for President in 1968.
- Cyrus Vance
- Episode 2
- Representative of President Johnson sent to Detroit during the riots of 1967.
- Edward Vaughn
- Episode 2
- Resident and business owner in Detroit during the riots of 1967.
W-Y
- Juanita Wade
- Episode 7
- Black parent in Boston who was against busing.
- Mike Wallace
- Episode 1
- Television journalist who hosted an early documentary about Malcolm X and the Nation of Islam.
- Philip Watkins
- Episode 6
- Prison guard at the Attica State Correctional Facility during the riot of 1971 who was held hostage by inmates.
- Debra Webb
- Episode 6 and 8
- Resident of Chicago, supporter of the Chicago Black Panther Party and volunteered with the Harold Washington mayoral campaign.
- Anne Weills
- Activist in Berkley California involved with the Black Panther Party.
- Jitu Weusi (Les Campbell)
- Episode 3
- Teacher in the Ocean Hill-Brownsville School District during the school experiment.
- Kevin White
- Episode 7
- Resident of Boston during the school desegregation crisis.
- Tom Wicker
- Episode 6
- Journalist who observed the Attica Prison uprining in 1971.
- Roger Wilkins
- Episodes 2, 4
- Assistant Attorney General who was sent to Detriot during the 1967 unrest.
- Geraldine Williams
- Episode 3
- Supporter of Carl Stokes and volunteer for his Clevelan mayoral campaign.
- Albert Wilson
- Episode 2
- Resident of Detroit during the riots of 1967.
- Sonny Wright
- Episode 8
- Resident of Overtown, Miami.
- Paul N. Ylvisaker
- Episode 6
- Civil rights supporter
- Reverend Andrew Young
- Episodes 2 and 4
- Worked with the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and associate of Martin Luther King Jr.
- Quentin Young
- Episode 6
- Civil rights movement activist and physician who assisted the Chicago Black Panthers in opening a health clinic.