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Black History Month 2015: Eyes on the Prize

Eyes on the Prize Series Fri Feb 20, 2015 12:10 pm - 1:30 pm

February 20th, Fighting Back (1957-1962)
States’ rights loyalists and federal authorities collide in the 1957 battle to integrate Little Rock’s Central High School, and again in James Meredith’s 1962 challenge to segregation at the University of Mississippi. Both times, a Southern governor squares off with a U.S. president, violence erupts -- and integration is carried out.

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