FEATURED SPEAKER:
Dr. Kirk Johnson
Professor of Sociology and African American Studies
Date: Tuesday, February 27, 2024
Time: 4:00 p.m., CST
Location: Gertrude C. Ford Student Union Ballroom
In 1989, PBS aired “Eyes on the Prize: America’s Civil Rights Years, 1954-1985” a 14-part documentary that blended long-forgotten archival footage with contemporary interviews of eyewitnesses to history. The series was hugely popular, winning nearly a dozen major film prizes, including six Emmy Awards. But Eyes stopped in 1985. What if it were filmed today? Prof. Kirk Johnson, who worked on the Eyes production team, nominates the most important civil rights events in recent history for inclusion in an updated series, and gives a sociologist’s perspective on how to think about them.
Sponsored by The College of Liberal Arts
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