Film Credits
Fighting Back (1957-1962)
Creator and Executive Producer
Henry Hampton
1940-1998
Produced and Directed by
Judith Vecchione
Associate Producer
Llewellyn M. Smith
Edited by
Daniel Eisenberg
Narrated by
Julian Bond
Assistant Editor
Victoria Garvin
Film Research
Lewanne Jones
David Thaxton
Kevin P. Green
Stock Footage Coordinator
Kenn Rabin
Production Manager
Jo Ann Mathieu
Senior Researcher
Laurie Kahn-Leavitt
Series Research Consultant
Judy Richardson
Post Production Supervisor
Cynthia Meagher Kuhn
Camera
Jon Else
Bobby Shepard
Tom McDonough
Michael Chin
Orlando Bagwell
Assistant Camera
Hugh Walsh
Bob Richman
Donald Humer
John Esaki
Hans-Peter Schloemer
Sound Recordists
Sekou Shepard
Russell Williams II
Donald Thomas
Clive B. Davidson
Sound Editors
Nigel Mercer
Joseph Burton
Editing Room Assistants
Elizabeth Carver
Eliza Gagnon
Meredith Woods
Sound Mixer
Richard Bock
Eyes on the Prize Book:
Juan Williams, Author
Robert Lavelle, Editor
Bennett Singer, Publishing Associate
Francine Norris, Publishing Associate
Telecourse Director
Toby Kleban Levine
Telecourse Coordinator
Raynard T. Davis
School Materials
Steve Cohen
Robert Hayden
Archives
AP/Wide World Photos
BBC Motion Gallery
Fox Movietonews, Inc.
John F. Kennedy Library
Marcia Lecky
Mississippi Dept. of Archives and History
NBC News Archives
Craig Rains
Rediscovery Films
Time, Inc.
UCLA Film & Television Archive
UPI/Bettmann Newsphotos
Special Thanks
Henry Johnson
University of Arkansas, Little Rock
Arkansas History Commission
Dan Den Bleyker
Mattie Robinson Crossley
Howard K. Dammond
Hank Holmes
University of Mississippi
Palmer & Dodge
Romas V. Slezas
Eric H. Smith
United Church of Christ
Original Funding for EYES ON THE PRIZE was provided by:
Corporation for Public Broadcasting
Public Television Stations
Ford Foundation
General Electric
Lotus Development Corporation
Charles H. Revson Foundation
Lilly Endowment Inc.
The Boston Foundation
Cummins Engine Company, Inc.
Raytheon Company
The San Francisco Foundation
Columbia Foundation
Hillsdale Fund, Inc.
Charles Evans Hughes Memorial Foundation, Inc.
Leo Model Foundation
The New York Community Trust
The Philadelphia Foundation
The Mary Norris Preyer Fund
The Villers Foundation
Alabama Humanities Foundation
The Boston Globe Foundation
Maurice Falk Medical Fund
Godfrey M. Hymans Trust
Abelard Foundation
Metropolitan Foundation of Atlanta
The Kraft Foundation
The Sapelo Island Research Center
Richard and Rhoda Goldman Fund
The Wallace Alexander Gerbode Foundation
Joint Foundation Support, Inc.
Bird Companies Charitable Foundation
Friedman Family Foundation
Polaroid Foundation
The Freed Foundation
The Irving I. Goldstein Foundation
Ruth Batson Educational Foundation
Bay Packaging and Converting Company
Sun Company
Tides Foundation
Freedom House
And others, a complete list is available from PBS
Educational Materials Funding
The Edward W. Hazen Foundation
The Rockefeller Foundation
Alabama Humanities Foundation
Maurice Falk Medical Fund
Georgia Humanities Council
Mississippi Humanities Council
Series Academic Advisors
Wiley Branton
Clayborne Carson
John Dittmer
Tony Freyer
David Garrow
Paul Gaston
Vincent Harding
Darlene Clark Hine
Steve Lawson
Genna Rae McNeil
Aldon Morris
J. Mills Thornton
Howard Zinn
National Advisory Board
Reginald Alleyne, Esq.
Ruth M. Batson, Co-Chair
Mary Francis Berry
The Hon. Julian Bond
Joseph Breiteneicher, Co-Chair
Geoffrey Cowan, Esq.
Edwin Dorn
Peter B. Edelman, Esq.
Paul & Marion Fishman
Faith Griefen
Adelaide C. Gulliver
Charles V. Hamilton
Robert Hohler
Stephen Horn
Eliot & Margaret Hubbard
Ellen Jackson
Willard R. Johnson
The Rev. Lawrence N. Jones
Vernon E. Jordan, Jr.
H. Peter Karoff
Melvin King
Thomas C. Layton
The Hon. John Lewis
The Rev. Jack Mendelsohn
The Hon. Parren J. Mitchell
Woodrow A. Myers, Jr., MD.
Eleanor Holmes Norton
Alvin & Anne Poussaint
Robert & Kathryn Preyer
Ann E. Raynolds
Carl & Judy Sapers
Otto & Muriel Snowden
Wallace Terry
Sue Bailey Thurman
Rutledge A. Waker
Laya Wiesner
Loretta J. Williams
Music Consultants
Bernice Johnson Reagon
Guy Carawan
Candie Carawan
Music Rights Coordinator
Cynthia Meagher Kuhn
Theme Music Produced, Arranged and Performed by
Bernice Johnson Reagon
Series Title Animation
Colossal Pictures
Opening Photograph
James H. Karales
Animation Camera
Edward T Joyce
Color by
DuArt
Negative Cutting
J.G. Films, Inc.
Opticals
Videart Opticals
Publicity
Karen Bates Logan
Daphne B. Noyes
Ellen Frey
Marcy DeVeaux
Production Secretaries
Sara Chazen
Production Assistant
Peter Montgomery
Eyes on the Prize Re-Release Project
President, Blackside
Judi Hampton
Project Director and Legal Counsel
Sandra Forman
Archivist and Rights Coordinator
Cynthia Meagher Kuhn
Music Supervisor
Rena C. Kosersky
Supervising Producer
Alison Bassett
Project Accountant
Paula Lerner
Consultants
James A. DeVinney
W. Michael Greene
Lina Heil
Robert Lavelle
Thomas R. Levy
Walter Rissmeyer
Administrative Assistants
Anita Bell
Karen Pirello
Anne Rampino
Fiscal Sponsor
Filmmakers Collaborative
Special Thanks
Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Richard Gilder
Lewis E. Lehrman
Steve Messere
Tobias Zimmerman
Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP
Washington University Libraries
Film & Media Archive, Henry Hampton Collection
For The Civil Rights Project, Inc.:
Inez Robinson
J. Benjamin Harris
Lorraine M. Flynn
Consulting Executive Producer
Michael Ambrosino
Series Writer
Steve Fayer
Series Producer
Jon Else
Series Senior Producer
Judith Vecchione
Executive Producer for American Experience
Mark Samels
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All Rights Reserved
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