American Experience · SEASON 20
Eyes on the Prize (9 & 10): Power!/The Promised Land
Episode 5 · 2008-02-10
- Documentary
Episode overview
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.
55 minutes
Season 20 episodes
1. Oswald's Ghost2008-01-14
2. The Lobotomist2008-01-21
3. Eyes on the Prize (7 & 8): The Time Has Come/Two Societies2008-02-03
4. Grand Central2008-02-04
5. Eyes on the Prize (9 & 10): Power!/The Promised Land2008-02-10
6. Eyes on the Prize (11 & 12): Ain't Gonna' Shuffle No More/A Nation of Law?2008-02-17
7. Eyes on the Prize (13 & 14): The Keys to the Kingdom/Back to the Movement2008-02-24
8. Kit Carson2008-02-18
9. Buffalo Bill2008-02-25
10. Minik: The Lost Eskimo2009-03-31
11. Walt Whitman2008-04-14
12. Roberto Clemente2008-04-21
13. George H.W. Bush (1)2008-05-05
14. George H.W. Bush (2)2008-05-06
