Rules For Submission

Nearly two decades after its 1987 premiere, the groundbreaking Civil Rights series Eyes on the Prize comes to UNC-TV from American Experience in three, two-hour episodes airing on consecutive Mondays, October 2-16, at 9 PM.

UNC-TV is proud to participate in the Eyes on the Prize Oral History Project, allowing North Carolina’s citizens, young and old, to showcase oral histories capturing the Civil Rights movement.

If you would like to submit an oral history to UNC-TV’s Eyes on the Prize Oral History Project, including any writings, audio, video and photographs, you must adhere to the following rules:

Written Submissions

Length: Written submissions (transcribed interviews, personal stories & accounts, poetry, etc.) should not exceed 1000 words. If your written submission is lengthier than 1000 words, please select and submit a portion of the writing that highlights the story told by you or your subject—keeping in mind the emphasis of your particular submission.

Format: Written submissions(transcripts, stories, accounts, etc.) must be submitted electronically. Written submissions may be sent three ways: (1) as an e-mail attachment, e-mailed to svolstad@unctv.org; (2) on a CD; or (3) via an online form, available at www.unctv.org/nceyes.

E-mails and CDs containing written submissions should also include participant contact information so that they may be matched with mailed submission forms and releases.

Video, Audio & Photo Submissions

Length: Video and audio submissions should not exceed 10 minutes. Similar to written submissions, longer video and audio pieces should be edited to reveal highlights of the story told by you or your subject—also keeping in mind the emphasis of your submission.

Written, video and audio submissions exceeding specified lengths will not be used.

There are no limitations on photo and image submissions. Participants are encouraged to submit multiple photos (with a corresponding document including captions and dates), even entire photo journals, in order to establish a particular civil rights milestone, event, or other experience. When submitting multiple digitized photos, participants are required to number each photo filename and its corresponding caption and date, so that the photos can be accurately displayed in their proper chronological order.

Format: Photo & image, audio and video Submissions must be submitted on a CD or DVD, and must adhere to the following formats:

• Scanned Photo/Images Format:  JPEG, GIF, PNG; (As mentioned, photos/images should also be numbered and contain a corresponding caption and date);

• Audio Formats: WAV, MP3, AIFF, WMA, QuickTime, REAL AUDIO;

• Video Formats:  AVI-Uncompressed, QuickTime-Uncompressed, MPEG4;
  (Video Dimension: 640x480).

 Completed UNC-TV Eyes on the Prize submissions on CD and DVD should be mailed to:

UNC-TV
Attention: Webteam - Eyes on the Prize
10 TW Alexander Drive
Research Triangle Park, NC 27709-4900

**No videotapes and audiotapes will be accepted. All submissions, including those on CD and DVD, will not be returned.  UNC-TV is not responsible for lost submissions.

Submission Form

Download Submission Form: MS Word - PDF

All participants must include a UNC-TV Eyes on the Prize submission form.

Youth under the age of 18 must provide their age, as well as obtain permission from a parent or guardian to submit to UNC-TV’s Eyes on the Prize Oral History Project.

Under “My Oral History,” please provide the name of the person or persons you interviewed, event researched, and/or the subject you otherwise documented and the date(s) of the documentation. In order to identify the subject of your submission, will need to write a short biography (one paragraph) of your subject. For a person or persons, this may include the date(s) and place(s) of birth, where the person(s) lived during the time covered by the oral history, basic information on his/her education and employment, and some information on his/her family. 

Next, you should also state why you selected the person(s) and/or event and what you wanted to know (or hoped to learn) from him/her/it.

Under “Brief Summary” of subject’s story, provide as much information as is needed to set the stage for the recording/transcript of your interviewee’s story.

Under Highlights, provide any items that you found most interesting about the subject.

Finally, indicate any lessons learned that are relevant to contemporary civil/human rights issues.

In addition to the audio or video interview, we encourage you to submit photographs of the person(s) you interviewed or events documented—presenting the time or time period described in the oral history—or drawings. Check all boxes that apply in this section. 

Completed UNC-TV Eyes on the Prize submissions and submission forms should be mailed to:

UNC-TV
Attention: Webteam - Eye on the Prize
10 TW Alexander Drive
Research Triangle Park, NC 27709-4900

Legal Issues and Release Forms

Download Appearance Release and Transfer of Rights Form: MS Word - PDF

If you are considering a submission to UNC-TV’s Eyes on the Prize Oral History Project, you will also need to submit a Release Form signed by any audio, video or written interviewee subject, photo subjects and yourself. If you are under the age of 18 at the time of submission, your parent or guardian will also need to sign it.   Forms submitted without adequate releases and permissions will not be used.

Completed UNC-TV Eyes on the Prize release forms, along with submission forms and CD and DVD submissions (if applicable), should be mailed to:

UNC-TV
Attention: Webteam - Eye on the Prize
10 TW Alexander Drive
Research Triangle Park, NC 27709-4900

Submission Contacts

UNC-TV Eyes on the Prize Oral History Project questions can be submitted to:

Webteam@unctv.org

UNC-TV
Attention: Webteam – Eyes on the Prize
10 TW Alexander Drive
Research Triangle Park, NC 27709-4900

UNC-TV will make a good faith effort to process all Eyes on the Prize Oral History Project submissions. UNC-TV has the right to determine the format by which to present all participant submissions. While submissions may be edited to eliminate objectionable content, in most cases, written submissions will not be edited for the purposes of correcting grammatical, spelling, or factual errors.