Profiles
Find out more about the People & Groups featured in Eyes on the Prize.
People
Ralph Abernathy Muhammad Ali (Cassius Clay) Ella Baker Amiri Baraka Julian Bond Elaine Brown Roy Bryant and J. W. Milam Angela Davis Dwight Eisenhower Medgar and Myrlie Evers Fannie Lou Hamer Jesse Jackson Maynard Jackson Lyndon B. Johnson John F. Kennedy Robert Kennedy Martin Luther King, Jr. John Lewis Malcolm X Rhody McCoy Arthur McDuffie James Meredith Mamie Till Mobley Constance Baker Motley and Thurgood Marshall Diane Nash Huey Newton Rosa Parks James Earl Ray Ronald Reagan Bobby Seale Frank "Big Black" Smith Carl Stokes Emmett Till Kwame Ture (Stokely Carmichael) Ben West
Groups
The Black Panthers Chicago Housing Activists Citizens' Councils Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) The FBI and the Civil Rights Movement Fisk University Howard University Student Protesters The Ku Klux Klan The Little Rock Nine The Nation Of Islam and Elijah Muhammad (1897-1975) National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) National Welfare Rights Organization Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) Poor People's Campaign/Resurrection City (1968)
Responses
Alabama: Anti-Freedom Rider Mobs (1961) California: Police and the Black Community in Oakland Florida: Race Riots (1980) Illinois: Segregationists in Cicero (1966) Massachusetts: Segregationists in Boston (1974) The March Against Fear (1966) Michigan: Riots and Police Brutality in Detroit (1967) Northern Murder Victims Southern Cities' Responses to Protests Southern Political Opposition to Integration Southern Schools Opposing Integration Tennessee: Strikes and Violence in Memphis (1968) The Vietnam War and the Civil Rights Movement (1967-68)
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