Eyes on the Prize: Ain't Scared of Your Jails is a documentary set between the years of 1960 and 1961 and tells the story of the civil rights era from the point of view of the young black college students. In Southern cities there were segregated public facilities like a Greensboro, North Carolina lunch counter, where four black college students attempted the first sit-in. The non-violent sit-in movement spread around the country to 69 cities in the South with black communities organizing and creating boycotts and picketing stores. In Nashville, student protesters were arrested and attacked but did not retaliate. In fact, the first couple of days were peaceful, but that changed on February 27, 1960, when a group of white teenagers attacked