The BEST episodes written by James A. Devinney
#1 - Eyes on the Prize (5): Mississippi: Is This America? (1963-1964)
American Experience - Season 19 - Episode 5
Mississippi's grass-roots civil rights movement becomes an American concern when college students travel south to help register black voters and three activists are murdered. The Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party challenges the regular Mississippi delegation at the Democratic Convention in Atlantic City.
#2 - The Wizard of Photography
American Experience - Season 12 - Episode 15
The story of the innovations that made photography affordable and easy enough for any American to enjoy.
#3 - Eyes on the Prize (3): Ain't Scared of Your Jails (1960-1961)
American Experience - Season 19 - Episode 3
Black college students take a leadership role in the civil rights movement as lunch counter sit-ins spread across the South. "Freedom Riders" also try to desegregate interstate buses, but they are brutally attacked as they travel.
#4 - Eyes on the Prize II (1): The Time Has Come (1964-1966)
American Experience - Season 20 - Episode 3
Examines a lead member of the Nation of Islam - Malcolm X. It also chronicles the political organizing work of the Lowndes County Freedom Organization (LCFO) in Alabama and the shooting of James Meredith during the March Against Fear.
#5 - 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).