American Experience · S20E07

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

2008-02-24 · 55 min

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.