{"product_id":"true-south-henry-hampton-and-eyes-on-the-prize-the-landmark-television-series-that-reframed-the-civil-rights-movement-9781101980934","title":"True South: Henry Hampton and Eyes on the Prize, the Landmark Television Series That Reframed the Civil Rights Movement","description":"\u003cb\u003e\" TRUE SOUTH] does several things at once. On one level, it's a biography . . . On another, it's a lucid recap of many of the signal events of the civil rights movement . . . A warm and intelligent book.\"--\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cb\u003e\"No one is better suited to write this moving account of perhaps the greatest American documentary series ever made. . . .  Else] tells the story with the compassion and eloquence it deserves.\"\u003cb\u003e--\u003c\/b\u003eAdam Hochschild, author of \u003ci\u003eKING LEOPOLD'S GHOST, BURY THE CHAINS, \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eTO END ALL WARS\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eThe inside story of \u003ci\u003eEyes on the Prize\u003c\/i\u003e, one of the most important and influential TV shows in history. Published on the 30th anniversary of the initial broadcast, which reached 100 million viewers.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Henry Hampton's 1987 landmark multipart television series, \u003ci\u003eEyes on the Prize\u003c\/i\u003e, an eloquent, plainspoken chronicle of the civil rights movement, is now the classic narrative of that history. Before Hampton, the movement's history had been written or filmed by whites and weighted heavily toward Dr. King's telegenic leadership. \u003ci\u003eEyes on the Prize\u003c\/i\u003e told the story from the point of view of ordinary people inside the civil rights movement. Hampton shifted the focus from victimization to strength, from white saviors to black courage. He recovered and permanently fixed the images we now all remember (but had been lost at the time)--Selma and Montgomery, pickets and fire hoses, ballot boxes and mass meetings. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Jon Else was Hampton's series producer and his moving book focuses on the tumultuous eighteen months in 1985 and 1986 when \u003ci\u003eEyes\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eon the Prize\u003c\/i\u003e was finally created. It's a point where many wires cross: the new telling of African American history, the complex mechanics of documentary making, the rise of social justice film, and the politics of television. And because Else, like Hampton and many of the key staffers, was himself a veteran of the movement, his book braids together battle tales from their own experiences as civil rights workers in the south in the 1960s. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Hampton was not afraid to show the movement's raw realities: conflicts between secular and religious leaders, the shift toward black power and armed black resistance in the face of savage white violence. It is all on the screen, and the fight to get it all into the films was at times as ferocious as the history being depicted. Henry Hampton utterly changed the way social history is told, taught, and remembered today.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Viking\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/24\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781101980934\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 416\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.41lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.20h x 6.20w x 1.40d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/01\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/07\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 12\/01\/2016 pg. 104\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e 12\/15\/2016 pg. 13\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 01\/01\/2017 pg. 109\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 05\/01\/2017\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Jon Else","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43271830012085,"sku":"9781101980934","price":25.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_7507a0ba-faa1-451b-92f5-e11a32b3f75b.jpg?v=1699957537","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/true-south-henry-hampton-and-eyes-on-the-prize-the-landmark-television-series-that-reframed-the-civil-rights-movement-9781101980934","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}