American Experience
Season 20 Episode 5 - Eyes on the Prize (9 & 10): Power!/The Promised Land
6.9 ?
1988
Documentary
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.
Episodes in Season 20
1
Oswald's Ghost
55 min
2
The Lobotomist
55 min
3
Eyes on the Prize (7 & 8): The Time Has Come/Two Societies
55 min
4
Grand Central
55 min
5
Eyes on the Prize (9 & 10): Power!/The Promised Land
55 min
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6
Eyes on the Prize (11 & 12): Ain't Gonna' Shuffle No More/A Nation of Law?
55 min
7
Eyes on the Prize (13 & 14): The Keys to the Kingdom/Back to the Movement
55 min
8
Kit Carson
55 min
9
Buffalo Bill
55 min
10
Minik: The Lost Eskimo
55 min
11
Walt Whitman
55 min
12
Roberto Clemente
55 min
13
George H.W. Bush (1)
55 min
14
George H.W. Bush (2)
55 min
