Eyes on the Prize
A Nation of Law?, 1967-1968
Directed by Louis J. Massiah, Thomas Ott, Terry Kay RockefellerS2 • E6 Feb 19, 1990 60m
Black activism is increasingly met with a sometimes violent and unethical response from local and federal law enforcement agencies. In Chicago, two Black Panther Party leaders are killed in a pre-dawn raid by police acting on information supplied by an FBI informant. In the wake of President Nixon's call to "law and order," stepped-up arrests push the already poor conditions at New York's Attica State Prison to the limit. A five-day inmate takeover calling the public's attention to the conditions leaves 43 men dead: four killed by inmates, 39 by police.
