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Episode IV: No Easy Walk Summary
The film Eye on the Prize: Episode IV: No Easy Walk gives an insight of African Americans and their fight for Civil Rights. The film marker exhibits the hardship African Americans and some whites in American went through to get rights for all. The film uplift the African American community to get what they wanted and not to stop until it was achieved. They wanted equal opportunity like any other whites in American and the same jobs positions as them. The film marker was sympathetic to the civil rights protesters than President Kennedy and his administration. President Kennedy did not want anything to do with the protest for Civil Rights, he left all the decision making to the Attorney General. It was his least concern and did not get involve

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