True South: "Henry Hampton and ""Eyes on the Prize,"" the Landmark Television Series That Reframed the...

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Jon Else

True South

"Henry Hampton and ""Eyes on the Prize,"" the Landmark Television Series That Reframed the Civil...

Jon Else

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Viking
15 March 2017

Biography: historical, political & military; History

"The inside story of the making of one of the most important and influential TV shows in history and of its legacy as the film that reframed of the entire history of the Civil Rights movement permanently. To be published on the 30th anniversary of the initial broadcast

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 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 firehoses, ballot boxes and mass meetings.

Jon Else was Hampton's series producer, and his moving book focuses on the tumultuous 18 months in 1985 and 1986 when ""Eyes"" was finally created, a point where many wires cross- the new telling of African American history, the complex mechanics of documentary making, the rise of social justice film, the politics of television (The Boston Globe and The New York Times published articles about Hampton's bitter funding problems, in which they named major foundations and corporations that had declined to support his telling the civil rights story.) And because Else, like Hampton and many of the key staffers, was himself a veteran of the movement, his book braids together battle tales from their own experiences as civil rights workers in the South in the 1960s.

""Eyes"" re-introduced Emmett Till to a world that had forgotten him and showed us the guts it took to cross the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, or walk up the school steps in Little Rock, Arkansas. It chronicled that great expansion of American democracy through legal victories, direct action, voter registration, and legislation. Hampton was not afraid to show the movement's raw realities- conflicts between secular and religious leaders, the shift toward black power and armed black resistance in the face of savage white violence. It is all on the screen, and the fight to get it all into the films was at times as ferocious as the history being depicted. Henry Hampton utterly changed the way social history is told, taught, and remembered today."

By: Jon Else
Imprint: Viking
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 238mm, Width: 162mm, Spine: 31mm
Weight: 636g
ISBN: 9781101980934
ISBN 10: 1101980931
Pages: 432
Publication Date: 15 March 2017
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Jon Else was series producer and cinematographer for Eyes on the Prize and has produced and directed many award-winning documentaries, including The Day After Trinityand Cadillac Desert. Else has been nominated for two Academy Awards and three Emmys, and is the winner of a MacArthur Genius Fellowship and one Emmy, several Alfred I. DuPont and Peabody Awards, and the Sundance Special Jury Prize and Sundance Filmmaker s Trophy. He is Professor and North Gate Chair in Journalism at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism.

Reviews for True South: "Henry Hampton and ""Eyes on the Prize,"" the Landmark Television Series That Reframed the Civil Rights Movement"

No one is better suited to write this moving account of perhaps the greatest American documentary series ever made. Jon Else helped film it, and, two decades earlier, as a civil rights worker in the South, he lived through part of the history involved. He tells the story with the compassion and eloquence it deserves. Adam Hochschild, author of King Leopold's Ghost, Bury the Chains, and To End All Wars