The BEST episodes directed by Jacqueline Shearer
#1 - The Massachusetts 54th Colored Infantry
American Experience - Season 4 - Episode 3
A story of the formation and service of the first all-Black military unit in the United States during the Civil War.
#2 - Eyes on the Prize II (3): Power! (1966-1968)
American Experience - Season 20 - Episode 6
Chronicles the election of Carl Stokes as the mayor of Cleveland and one of the first two African Americans to become mayor of a major U.S. city. The film also covers the formation of the Black Panther Party (BPP) and community control of the Ocean Hill-Brownsville school district in Brooklyn during the New York City teachers' strike of 1968.
#3 - Eyes on the Prize II (7): The Keys to the Kingdom (1974-1980)
American Experience - Season 20 - Episode 11
The documentary examines the Boston school desegregation crisis involving busing in Massachusetts. The second part of the film chronicles the election of Maynard Jackson as mayor of Atlanta and the first African American to become mayor of a major U.S. city in the southern United States. The last part of the film examines affirmative action and the landmark United States Supreme Court ruling Regents of the University of California v. Bakke (1978).