MLK Day Documentary Screening: The Promised Land (1967-68) Episode from Eyes on the Prize PBS Series

To honor of Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday, we will screen The Promised Land (1967-68), episode 10 from the PBS documentary Eyes on the Prize.

The Promised Land (1967-68) recounts how Martin Luther King Jr. stakes out new ground for himself and the rapidly fragmenting Civil Rights Movement. One year before his death, he publicly opposes the war in Vietnam. His Southern Christian Leadership Conference embarks on an ambitious Poor People's Campaign. In the midst of political organizing, King detours to support striking sanitation workers in Memphis, where he is assassinated. King's death and the failure of his final campaign mark the end of a major stream of the movement.

Produced by Blackside, Eyes on the Prize tells the definitive story of the Civil Rights Era from the point of view of the ordinary men and women whose extraordinary actions launched a movement that changed the fabric of American life, and embodied a struggle whose reverberations continue to be felt today. Winner of numerous Emmy awards, a George Foster Peabody Award, an International Documentary Award, and a Television Critics Association Award, Eyes on the Prize is the most critically acclaimed documentary on civil rights in America.

All ages.