Eyes on the Prize (13 & 14): The Keys to the Kingdom/Back to the Movement

American Experience

S20E07
February 24, 2008 55 min

Overview

In the 1970s, antidiscrimination legal rights gained in past decades by the civil rights movement are put to the test. In Boston, some whites violently resist a federal court school desegregation order. Atlanta's first black mayor, Maynard Jackson, proves that affirmative action can work, but the Bakke Supreme Court case challenges that policy.

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