The film “Eyes on the Prize: Awakenings (1954-56)” will be put on by the A.F.R.I.C.A Club today at 5 p.m. in room 1533 of the Library in celebration of Black History Month.

The film concentrates on two individual acts that motivated black southerners to stand up for their rights. The film focuses on Mose Wright?s daring testimony in a trial of two white men for the murder of Emmett Till. It also tells of Rosa Park?s refusal to give up her seat on a bus to a white man in Montgomery, Alabama, and the year-long bus boycott by blacks that resulted from it.

The film tells of the many obstacles black southerners overcame to stand up to racial injustice, and their movement for civil and human rights. Admission is free.