2 Season
14 Episode
Eyes on the Prize - Season 2 Episode 6 A Nation of Law?, 1967-1968
Black activism is increasingly met with a sometimes violent and unethical response from local and federal law enforcement agencies. In Chicago, two Black Panther Party leaders are killed in a pre-dawn raid by police acting on information supplied by an FBI informant. In the wake of President Nixon's call to "law and order," stepped-up arrests push the already poor conditions at New York's Attica State Prison to the limit. A five-day inmate takeover calling the public's attention to the conditions leaves 43 men dead: four killed by inmates, 39 by police.
- Year: 1990
- Country: United States of America
- Genre: Documentary
- Studio: PBS
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- Director: Henry Hampton
- Cast: Julian Bond