Mississippi__Is_This_America_

Mississippi: Is This America' Mississippi: Is this America' The video series Eyes on the Prize is an educational series of video footage documenting the Civil Rights Movement in the United States. Volume 5 in the series is of exceptional interest to me because it documents the events of the civil rights movement that occurred in Mississippi. As a Mississippi native I have heard and read about all of these stories, but seeing the actual video was awe-inspiring. I never knew that there was so much information regarding Mississippi’s role in the civil rights movement that was left out of my public education. The events in this volume took place from 1963 through 1964. The video opens and shows the Mississippi Delta’s struggle to keep segregation alive by any means necessary. The leaders of the civil rights movement are trying to get black citizens registered to vote. This does not sound like such a revolutionary task unless one knows that black citizens exponentially outnumbered whites in a vast majority of Mississippi’s counties, but almost none of them were registered to vote. This came to be known as “Freedom Summer” and groups such as the Student Non-Violent Coordinating mississippi, black, rights, civil, vote, citizens, video, series, movement, freedom, after, young, while, volume, took, summer, sncc, registered, register, prize, own, mississippi’s, mississippians, mfdp, left, kennedy, eyes, events, education, came, assassination, 1964, yard, whites, white