Eyes on the Prize II – The Promised Land 1967-68 (1990)

Producer, director and writer, with Jacqueline Shearer, of two films in the multi-part civil rights history series.  "The Promised Land: 1967-68," about Dr. Martin Luther King's last year, and "The Keys to the Kingdom: 1972-78", about school desegregation in Boston, the election of Atlanta's first black mayor, and affirmative action. Awards: for the Series included a George Foster Peabody Award, an Alfred I. duPont-Columbia Journalism Award, a Silver Baton, the Organization of American Historians' Eric Barnouw Award, and multiple Emmys.  “The Promised Land” was nominated for two Emmys, for writing and editing, Described by Time Magazine as “about as good as TV documentaries get,” “a compelling (but) disturbing portrait of what it means to be black in America” by Newsweek, “a work of art…complex, moving and magnificent” by the New York Post.

National PBS broadcast January 1990.

Produced & Directed by Jacqueline Shearer & Paul Stekler Executive Producer Henry Hampton

Narrated by Julian Bond Cinematography by Bobby Shepard

Edited by Lillian Benson, Asst Editor Maia Harris Associate Producers Henry Hampton