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From: WUKY

A look at one of the turning points of the Civil Rights struggle 50 years later: the assassination of Medgar Evers. With poetry by Frank X. Walke...

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William Anderson

From: New Visions, New Voices
Series: Moments of the Movement

Americus, Ga., native Dr. William Anderson founded the Albany Movement in Georgia in 1961 in an effort to forge a broad-based coalition for change....

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Robert Hayling

From: New Visions, New Voices
Series: Moments of the Movement

Dentist Robert Hayling has been hailed as the "father" of the Saint Augustine, Fla., civil rights movement. The NAACP recruited Hayling in the earl...

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Joyce Ann Ladner and Dorie Ann Ladner

From: New Visions, New Voices
Series: Moments of the Movement

Caption: Joyce Ann (left) and Dorie Ann Ladner

As two sisters from Mississippi—Dorie Ann and Joyce Ann Ladner—worked to prepare for the March on Washington in 1963, they realized there was a far...

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Gwendolyn Simmons

From: New Visions, New Voices
Series: Moments of the Movement

With themes of civil resistance, nonviolent protests, boycotts and voting rights at the helm of the Civil Rights Movement, there was another consta...

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Esther Terry

From: New Visions, New Voices
Series: Moments of the Movement

Much of the credit for the growth of the Civil Rights Movement in the South rightly went to college students from the nation's HBCUs. Dr. Esther Te...

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Courtland Cox

From: New Visions, New Voices
Series: Moments of the Movement

As a Howard University student, Courtland Cox served on the steering committee for the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom as a represent...

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David and Toko Ackerman

From: New Visions, New Voices
Series: Moments of the Movement

The husband and wife team of David and Toko Ackerman represented the diversity of the Civil Rights Movement. David, a self-proclaimed product of a ...

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Purcell Conway

From: New Visions, New Voices
Series: Moments of the Movement

Young people played a key role in the civil rights movement. For some, their involvement came as an objection to their parents’ various fears. For...

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Phil Hutchings

From: New Visions, New Voices
Series: Moments of the Movement

Beginning in the 1960s as an interracial group advocating nonviolence, SNCC shifted its focus to political activism and later in the decade to blac...

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Freeman Hrabowski on Birmingham Bombing

From: New Visions, New Voices
Series: Moments of the Movement

The bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham was a turning point in the Civil Rights Movement. But for Freeman Hrabowski, now presid...

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Freeman Hrabowski

From: New Visions, New Voices
Series: Moments of the Movement

Birmingham native Freeman Hrabowski, who was trained to lead and protect younger children during civil rights protests, explains why many middle-cl...

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Carrie Young

From: New Visions, New Voices
Series: Moments of the Movement

SNCC (snick) found a committed worker in teenaged Carrie Young in 1960s Arkansas. But even Young’s devotion had not prepared her for the illiteracy...

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Alfred Moldovan

From: New Visions, New Voices
Series: Moments of the Movement

Dr. Alfred Moldovan, a founding member of the Medical Committee for Human Rights, shares his experience of treating SNCC workers who were attacked ...

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Moments of the Movement -- Joseph Lowery

From: New Visions, New Voices
Series: Moments of the Movement

Rev. Joseph E. Lowery discusses New York Times v. Sullivan, the case in which he was a defendant along with Fred Shuttlesworth, Ralph Abernathy, an...

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Shirley Sherrod

From: New Visions, New Voices
Series: Moments of the Movement

Former United States Department of Agriculture official Shirley Sherrod shares how the death of her father at the hands of a white farmer in rural ...

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John Churchville

From: New Visions, New Voices
Series: Moments of the Movement

Activist and black nationalist John Churchville is known best as the founder of Philadelphia's Freedom Library Day School, but as a student of Malc...

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Junius Williams

From: New Visions, New Voices
Series: Moments of the Movement

Attorney, musician, and educator Junius Williams has advocated for poor and working class African Americans in Newark, N.J., for more than 40 years...

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Matthew Perry Jr.

From: New Visions, New Voices
Series: Moments of the Movement

Judge Matthew J. Perry Jr. will be remembered as the first African-American from South Carolina to ascend to the federal bench, but he started out ...

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Moments of the Movement - Cecil Williams

From: New Visions, New Voices
Series: Moments of the Movement

Orangeburg, S.C., native Cecil J. Williams began taking pictures of the nascent Civil Rights Movement in his home town at the young age of 15, and ...

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Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.- I Have a Dream

From: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Series: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr- a Rewind series

In the third of six programs that honour Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., the speech that brought him to national attention- I Have a Dream. Also, the f...

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All Mixed Up with Martin Luther King Jr.

From: Peter Bochan
Series: All Mixed Up

A Celebration of Martin Luther King Jr and the historic March on Washington that took place in August 1963, with new mixes featuring Israel Kamakaw...

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Say it Loud: Great Speeches on Civil Rights and African American Identity

From: American Public Media
Series: American RadioWorks: Black History

"Say It Loud" traces the last 50 years of black history through stirring, historically important speeches by African Americans from across the poli...

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Equal Time: The Networks and the Civil Rights Movement

From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes

How the evening news shaped attitudes about race relations during the Civil Rights Movement.

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The '63 March: Going to D.C.

From: WGBH Radio Boston

This is the first in a five-part radio series focusing on the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. The leaders demanded an end to segreg...

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Remembering "I Have a Dream"

From: Rebecca Sheir

Caption: Julian Bond (right) at the March on Washington for Freedom and Jobs, with other members of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee., Credit: Julian Bond

We know what history books say about Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech - but what about the people who were there?

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The Other Half Had a Dream Too

From: KSFR
Series: Equal Time with Martha Burk

The historic 1963 March on Washington with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech featured a number of other speakers -- all male. Or...

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A Letter, A March, A Dream: 1963 Retold

From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact

50 years after the March on Washington, syndicated columnist Reverend Byron Williams makes the case that 1963 was the pivotal year for American cul...

The Fierce Urgency of Now: The 1963 March on Washington

From: BackStory with the American History Guys

Caption: Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., at the March on Washington, August 28th, 1963, Credit: National Archives

August 28th marks the 50th anniversary of the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s famous speech in front of the Lincoln memorial in Washington, D.C., wh...

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