American Experience

Eyes on the Prize (9 & 10): Power!/The Promised Land

TV-PG
S20 • E5    Feb 9, 2008    55m
The call for Black Power takes various forms across communities in black America. In Cleveland, Carl Stokes wins election as the first black mayor of a major American city. The Black Panther Party, armed with law books, breakfast programs, and guns, is born in Oakland. Substandard teaching practices prompt parents to gain educational control of a Brooklyn school district but then lead them to a showdown with New York City's teachers' union.

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  • Julian BondNarrator (voice)

 

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