A Nation of Law?, 1967-1968
Show: Eyes on the Prize --> Season: 2 - America at the Racial Crossroads 1965–1985
AirDate: 2/19/1990
Runtime: 60
Voting: 0 (0)

Overview: 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.