TUNE IN TONIGHT

AMERICAN EXPERIENCE: EYES ON THE PRIZE

PBS, 8 p.m. ET

(Check local listings)

Everyone, but especially students who have taken any of my TV history courses, should hit the Record button and treasure every second of this superb PBS miniseries, originally televised decades ago. It’s a three-part, six-hour history of the civil rights movement, and it’s also a history of how television changed how America dealt with race, by shining the scrutiny of TV cameras onto the ugliest examples of regional bigotry. Included tonight: the brutal murder of young Emmitt Till, seen here with his mother.