A total of 14 episodes of "Eyes on the Prize" were produced in two separate parts. The first part, "Eyes on the Prize: America's Civil Rights Years 1954–1965", chronicles the time period between the United States Supreme Court ruling "Brown v. Board of Education" (1954) to the Selma to Montgomery marches of 1965. It consists of six episodes, which premiered on January 21, 1987, and concluded on February 25, 1987. The second part, "Eyes on the Prize II: America at the Racial Crossroads 1965–1985", chronicles the time period between the national emergence of Malcolm X during 1964 to the 1983 election of Harold Washington as the first African-American mayor of Chicago. It consists of eight episodes, which aired on January 15, 1990 and ended on March 5, 1990, and was made widely available to educators on VHS tape. All 14 hours were re-released on DVD in 2006 by PBS.