MLK Day Documentary Screening: Two Societies (1965-68) Episode from Eyes on the Prize PBS Series

In honor of Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday, we will screen Two Societies (1965-68), episode eight from the PBS documentary Eyes on the Prize.

Two Societies (1965-68), recounts how Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) head north to help Chicago's civil rights leaders in their nonviolent struggle against segregated housing. Their efforts pit them against Chicago's powerful mayor, Richard Daley. When a series of marches through all-white neighborhoods draws violence, King and Daley negotiate with mixed results. In Detroit, a police raid in a Black neighborhood sparks an urban uprising that lasts five days, leaving 43 people dead. The Kerner Commission finds that America is becoming "two societies, one black, one white, separate and unequal." President Lyndon Johnson, who appointed the commission, ignores the report.

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.