Jon Else
Wednesday, January 25 @ 7:00PM
City Lights Booksellers & Publishers
261 Columbus Ave.
San Francisco, CA 94133
Jon Else in conversation with Spencer Nakasako and Orlando Bagwell
discussing his new book
True South: Henry Hampton and "Eyes on the Prize," the Landmark Television Series That Reframed the Civil Rights Movement
from Viking Press
The inside story of one of the most important and influential TV shows in history.
Henry Hampton's 1987 landmark multipart television series, Eyes on the Prize, an eloquent, plainspoken chronicle of the civil rights movement, is now the classic narrative of that history. Before Hampton, the movement's history had been written or filmed by whites and weighted heavily toward Dr. King's telegenic leadership. Eyes told the story from the point of view of ordinary people inside the civil rights movement—the "fan ladies" and "ordinary world parishioners," mostly African American. Hampton shifted the focus from victimization to strength, from white saviors to black courage. He recovered and permanently fixed the images we now all remember (but had been lost at the time)—Selma and Montgomery, pickets and fire hoses, ballot boxes and mass meetings.
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Wednesday, January 25 @ 7:00PM
City Lights Booksellers & Publishers
261 Columbus Ave.
San Francisco, CA 94133
Jon Else in conversation with Spencer Nakasako and Orlando Bagwell
discussing his new book
True South: Henry Hampton and "Eyes on the Prize," the Landmark Television Series That Reframed the Civil Rights Movement
from Viking Press
The inside story of one of the most important and influential TV shows in history.
Henry Hampton's 1987 landmark multipart television series, Eyes on the Prize, an eloquent, plainspoken chronicle of the civil rights movement, is now the classic narrative of that history. Before Hampton, the movement's history had been written or filmed by whites and weighted heavily toward Dr. King's telegenic leadership. Eyes told the story from the point of view of ordinary people inside the civil rights movement—the "fan ladies" and "ordinary world parishioners," mostly African American. Hampton shifted the focus from victimization to strength, from white saviors to black courage. He recovered and permanently fixed the images we now all remember (but had been lost at the time)—Selma and Montgomery, pickets and fire hoses, ballot boxes and mass meetings.
Jon Else
Wednesday, January 25 @ 7:00PM
City Lights Booksellers & Publishers
261 Columbus Ave.
San Francisco, CA 94133
Jon Else in conversation with Spencer Nakasako and Orlando Bagwell
discussing his new book
True South: Henry Hampton and "Eyes on the Prize," the Landmark Television Series That Reframed the Civil Rights Movement
from Viking Press
The inside story of one of the most important and influential TV shows in history.
Henry Hampton's 1987 landmark multipart television series, Eyes on the Prize, an eloquent, plainspoken chronicle of the civil rights movement, is now the classic narrative of that history. Before Hampton, the movement's history had been written or filmed by whites and weighted heavily toward Dr. King's telegenic leadership. Eyes told the story from the point of view of ordinary people inside the civil rights movement—the "fan ladies" and "ordinary world parishioners," mostly African American. Hampton shifted the focus from victimization to strength, from white saviors to black courage. He recovered and permanently fixed the images we now all remember (but had been lost at the time)—Selma and Montgomery, pickets and fire hoses, ballot boxes and mass meetings.
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Wednesday, January 25 @ 7:00PM
City Lights Booksellers & Publishers
261 Columbus Ave.
San Francisco, CA 94133
Jon Else in conversation with Spencer Nakasako and Orlando Bagwell
discussing his new book
True South: Henry Hampton and "Eyes on the Prize," the Landmark Television Series That Reframed the Civil Rights Movement
from Viking Press
The inside story of one of the most important and influential TV shows in history.
Henry Hampton's 1987 landmark multipart television series, Eyes on the Prize, an eloquent, plainspoken chronicle of the civil rights movement, is now the classic narrative of that history. Before Hampton, the movement's history had been written or filmed by whites and weighted heavily toward Dr. King's telegenic leadership. Eyes told the story from the point of view of ordinary people inside the civil rights movement—the "fan ladies" and "ordinary world parishioners," mostly African American. Hampton shifted the focus from victimization to strength, from white saviors to black courage. He recovered and permanently fixed the images we now all remember (but had been lost at the time)—Selma and Montgomery, pickets and fire hoses, ballot boxes and mass meetings.
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