PRX - Pieces for Topic: African-American
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Rep. James Clyburn speaks with his granddaughter, Sydney Reed, about the lessons he’s learned from success and failure.
- Added: Mar 10, 2020
- Length: 03:04
John Lewis remembers how Dr. King’s words inspired him to join the Civil Rights Movement.
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WYAP, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., KPTZ, Port Townsend, WA and more
- Added: Jan 23, 2020
- Length: 02:59
- Purchases: 8
In 1963, more than a dozen African American girls, including Carol Barner-Seay , Shirley Reese, Diane Bowens, and Verna Hollis, were arrested for p...
- Added: Mar 28, 2019
- Length: 06:02
We meet Los Angeles based artist Mark Bradford—known for connecting art with the real world—when he represents the United States in the 57th Venice...
- Added: Sep 24, 2018
- Length: 09:01
Dion Diamond talks about the risks he took as a young civil rights activist in the 1950s and 60s.
Bought by WEZU
- Added: Jan 25, 2018
- Length: 02:25
- Purchases: 1
Sabaah Folayan and Damon Davis talk hypocrisy, reckless disregard, and modernized blackface.
- Added: Aug 11, 2017
- Length: 15:17
Vernon Dahmer was a successful farmer who fought for voting rights in the mid-1960s. His family recalls the night he was killed by the KKK.
Bought by Public Radio for All and WMUU-LP
- Added: Jan 23, 2017
- Length: 02:30
- Purchases: 2
Connecticut man remembers a murder that changed course of the civil rights movement.
- Added: Nov 13, 2014
- Length: 04:16
J.T. Johnson and Al Lingo remember having acid thrown on them after jumping into a whites-only swimming pool in St. Augustine, Florida in June of 1...
- Added: Jun 13, 2014
- Length: 02:04
- Purchases: 4
Lawrence Cumberbatch (R) tells his son, Simeon (L), how he traveled from New York City to Washington DC with Brooklyn CORE for the March on Washing...
Bought by WEZU, WRIR, KIDE Hoopa Tribal Radio 91.3fm, and WTJU
- Added: Aug 23, 2013
- Length: 02:38
- Purchases: 4
This historical novel brings to life the “Widow of the South,” Carrie McGavock. The bloodiest battle of the Civil War took place on November 30, 18...
Bought by KCMJ Community Radio
- Added: Apr 14, 2013
- Length: 09:52
- Purchases: 1