PRX - Pieces for Format: Archival
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A listen of a recording from 1959 that resurrected the career of Sam Lightnin' Hopkins.
Bought by WLPR
- Added: Feb 12, 2022
- Length: 58:11
- Purchases: 1
On December 3, 1955, a 33-year-old Black gas station attendant named Clinton Melton was shot and killed in Glendora, Mississippi. Two witnesses — i...
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio and WXAV 88.3FM Chicago
- Added: Oct 18, 2021
- Length: 11:44
- Purchases: 2
Blues music has been his world most of his life.
- Added: Jan 20, 2021
- Length: 57:23
One of the original 13 Freedom Riders, what Charles Person faced during the Civil Rights Movement was far worse than his time as a Marine in Vietnam.
- Added: Jan 13, 2021
- Length: 01:26:58
Only 11 years old on Bloody Sunday, JoAnne faced the charging horses and the swinging batons of the state troopers.
- Added: Jan 13, 2021
- Length: 01:06:54
Her mugshot has been called one of the most iconic in American history. The pretty white southern woman who defied Jim Crow and fought for civil ri...
- Added: Jan 13, 2021
- Length: 01:23:34
Super Chikin' and Terry "Harmonica" Bean from Mississippi
- Added: Nov 30, 2020
- Length: 58:58
A collection of Blues songs that have relevance to current issues in 2020
- Added: Aug 18, 2020
- Length: 59:13
Renault Robinson was an officer in the Chicago Police Department in 1971 when he was first interviewed by radio host and oral historian Studs Terke...
Bought by Prairie Public, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WORT, and PRX Remix
- Added: May 08, 2017
- Length: 05:42
- Purchases: 4
Four years after Nelson Mandela was released from prison, he became president of South Africa. And yet, those 4 years were among the bloodiest and ...
Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., WDBM, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, KHSU and more
- Added: Jan 15, 2016
- Length: 17:44
- Purchases: 7
The Cutting Edge looks at the causes and aftermath of the 1992 L.A. rebellion.
- Added: Apr 29, 2012
- Length: 01:00:13
An audio collage of the struggle for civil rights, focusing on the role of Dr. Martin Luther King.
Bought by Radio Catskill, Prairie Public, KVMR, Prairie Public, Prairie Public and more
- Added: Jan 19, 2010
- Length: 01:30:13
- Purchases: 10
- Added: Jan 19, 2010
- Length: 01:28:37
