THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT: THE FULL STORY, INCLUDING WHAT DIDN'T CHANGE
Episode 14 | Human History — Groups & Movements
In this History episode we focus on the American Civil Rights Movement — the context most tellings omit, the people most tellings forget, and the honest assessment most tellings avoid.
This episode covers the pre-1955 history and Thurgood Marshall's decades of litigation, Rosa Parks as a trained NAACP organizer making a deliberate choice, the people the standard narrative omits — Bayard Rustin, Ella Baker, Fannie Lou Hamer — Birmingham and Bull Connor, the March on Washington, the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act, King's radicalization…
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