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Dr. Dorothy Cotton, one of Martin Luther King's top colleagues in the civil rights movement, passed away at her home in Ithica, New York, Sunday, J...
Bought by RadioStPete Florida
- Added: Jun 11, 2018
- Length: 29:01
- Purchases: 1
Here's an account of healthcare in the rural Alabama. This account was written in 1894. Listen.
- Added: Mar 01, 2016
- Length: 06:39
Lucy Parsons fought tirelessly and effectively for the rights of political prisoners, people of color, workers, the homeless and women.
- Added: Mar 01, 2013
- Length: 02:33
After the Civil War, Haviland became a one-woman cyclone of activity, organizing refugee camps and establishing schools, volunteering as a teacher ...
Bought by Prairie Public
- Added: Mar 01, 2013
- Length: 02:26
- Purchases: 1
Older, overworked, frustrated and unwell, Hamer's famous line "I'm sick and tired of being sick and tired" appears on her tombstone. But she mainta...
Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio
- Added: Mar 01, 2013
- Length: 02:41
- Purchases: 1
Taylor made the cut as an in-your-face woman because she had the brass to go to secret schools as a child and then pass along what she learned as t...
- Added: Nov 05, 2012
- Length: 02:24
Till used the broken body of her only child to give an entire nation a much needed object lesson.
- Added: Nov 05, 2012
- Length: 02:30
Nzingha formed an alliance with the Dutch and spent the rest of her days leading troops into battle against them.
- Added: Nov 05, 2012
- Length: 02:36
After she became a lawyer, Kennedy missed no opportunity to push every envelope she could related to either race or gender.
- Added: Oct 08, 2012
- Length: 02:18
Zora was one of the shining lights of the Harlem Renaissance as a writer of novels, short stories, essays, articles, plays, folklore collections, a...
- Added: Oct 05, 2012
- Length: 02:21
A comparative generational discussion about interracial marriage
Bought by Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi)
- Added: Sep 22, 2010
- Length: 28:56
- Purchases: 1
Alberta Martin and Daisy Anderson are the last living Civil War Widows.
Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, Vocalo.org, Connecticut Public (WNPR), The Story, KRCB 104.9 and more
- Added: Dec 07, 2003
- Length: 12:59
- Purchases: 14
