EYES ON THE PRIZE II; PBS, debuting Jan. 15, 9 p.m. on most stations
When we last left the civil rights movement, at the end of the 1987 PBS documentary series Eyes on the Prize, it had just survived a violent clash with state troopers outside Selma, Ala. The confrontation climaxed a remarkable decade of civil rights activity that followed the 1954 Supreme Court decision outlawing segregation. Eyes on the Prize II, an eight-week continuation of that story, plunges us into a much different world. Malcolm X, Stokely Carmichael and other firebrands have emerged to challenge the movement's old guard and...
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