Sarah Luria

Associate Professor, Department of English

"When I crouch to my television set,/ the drained faces of Negro school-children rise like balloons"

The following clips contain film footage from the riots surrounding the attempt to integrate public schools in Little Rock, Arkansas (1959) and from the Children's March during the Civil Rights Movement.

 

Film Clip #1 - Children's march
 

Flim Clip #2 - Children in jail

 
Flim Clip #3 - Boy going up to school and is turned back
 
 

Source: Eyes On The Prize, Programs 2 and 4.

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