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A New Book on Thomas Jefferson and Slavery
From: With Good Reason
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A recent book critical of Thomas Jefferson as a slaveholder has raised controversial questions about our founding father. Allison Quantz has the st...

  • Added: Nov 09, 2012
  • Length: 02:47
Freedom Rider "Rip" Patton Tells His Story
From: Candice Ludlow
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Freedom Rider "Rip" Patton tells his story about taking that eerie ride to Jackson, Mississippi.

  • Added: May 18, 2012
  • Length: 04:47
Jazz & the Civil Rights Movement
From: Howard Burchette
Series: Jazz Time
Caption: Serenade To A Bus Seat, Credit: 2007 Concord Music Group, Inc.
"Jazz & the Civil Rights Movement" is an important one hour program that features Jazz music as the background with comments concerning the Civil R...

Bought by Troy Public Radio, WJAB, Spokane Public Radio, Radio New Zealand, WTJU and more


  • Added: Mar 10, 2012
  • Length: 49:56
  • Purchases: 6
Moments in Black History: Rosa Parks
From: N Lorde
Caption: Rosa Parks, Credit: Mindfully.org
In 1955 one woman refused to give up her seat on a bus to a white man - in doing so she inspired a whole race to fight back against institutionaliz...

Bought by RadioStPete Florida, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, and KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio


  • Added: Jan 21, 2012
  • Length: 01:55
  • Purchases: 3
The Legacy of Massive Resistance
From: With Good Reason
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In 1959, Prince Edward County, Virginia closed its schools rather than integrate. The closures lasted for five years, and the people who were denie...

Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, Interlochen Public Radio, 90.5 WSNC, KZYX, WESM 91.3 FM and more


  • Added: Jan 12, 2012
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 7
Strike
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
Caption: portrait of Barbara Johns, who led the walkout
In 1951 a group of African American students at Robert R. Moton High School in Prince Edward County, Virginia, organized a strike to protest the su...

Bought by KALW, RadioStPete Florida, KVSC, WFHB, KBUT Crested Butte, Colo. and more


  • Added: Jan 09, 2012
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 27
Racial Politics and the Obama Presidency
From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious
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Radio Curious visits with Randall Kennedy, author of "The Persistence of the Color Line: Racial Politics and the Obama Presidency," and "Nigger:The...

  • Added: Oct 31, 2011
  • Length: 29:00
Beth Israel 150
From: Dina Weinstein
Caption: Rabbi Valerie Cohen of Beth Israel Congregation in Jackson, Mississippi on the congregation's 150th anniversary, Credit: Dina Weinstein
Beth Israel Jewish Congregation in Jackson, Mississippi celebrates it's 150th anniversary with song as well as looking back and looking forward.

  • Added: Sep 15, 2011
  • Length: 11:32
Grave Matters
From: With Good Reason
Series: news features
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Discovering cultural attitudes about race and class--through burial practices.

Bought by KENW and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Jun 20, 2011
  • Length: 02:12
  • Purchases: 2
Freedom Riders (Student Narrated Version)
From: PBS
Caption: From May until November 1961, more than 400 black and white Americans risked their lives — and many endured savage beatings and imprisonment — for simply traveling together on buses and trains as they journeyed through the Deep South. Pictured: In Annisto, Credit: Corbis
From May until November 1961, more than 400 black and white Americans risked their lives — and many endured savage beatings and imprisonment — for ...

Bought by 90.1 WFYI Public Radio and KRCB 104.9


  • Added: May 11, 2011
  • Length: 03:32
  • Purchases: 2
Freedom Riders
From: PBS
Caption: From May until November 1961, more than 400 black and white Americans risked their lives — and many endured savage beatings and imprisonment — for simply traveling together on buses and trains as they journeyed through the Deep South. Pictured: In Annisto, Credit: Corbis
From May until November 1961, more than 400 black and white Americans risked their lives — and many endured savage beatings and imprisonment — for ...

Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, 90.1 WFYI Public Radio, and KRCB 104.9


  • Added: May 11, 2011
  • Length: 03:35
  • Purchases: 4
Christopher "Punch" Purdy on painting Little Haiti Mural for Mosaic of Art
From: George Fishman
Series: LITTLE HAITI MURAL
Caption: Chris Purdy at Little Haiti Mural, Credit: Mark Diamond
Artist CHRIS PURDY describes managing the Haiti Earthquake Commemorative mural in Little Haiti neighborhood of Miami, FL.

  • Added: Mar 04, 2011
  • Length: 05:51
Ms. Joanne Bland Presents: Growing Up in the Segregated South: Selma Voting Rights Movement
From: KQAL
Series: Culture Clique
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In 1965 the Southern Christian leadership Conference (SCLC) joined a Joanne Bland is the co-founder of the National Voting Rights Museum and Insti...

Bought by KWMR and WJAB


  • Added: Mar 04, 2011
  • Length: 31:50
  • Purchases: 2
An Interview with Ms. Joanne Bland: Civil Rights Activist for the Selma Voting Rights Movement
From: KQAL
Series: Culture Clique
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On the last edition Culture Clique, Ms. Joanne Blackmon Bland discussed on Growing up in the Segregated South: The Selma Voting Rights Movement. Sh...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Mar 04, 2011
  • Length: 32:18
  • Purchases: 1
Jailed for Breaking the Lunch Counter Taboo (26:30 min version)
From: susan galleymore
Caption: Raising Sand Radio
This is the longer version of piece of the same title

  • Added: Feb 27, 2011
  • Length: 26:29
Jailed for Breaking the Lunch Counter Taboo
From: susan galleymore
Caption: Raising Sand Radio
Mary Edith Bentley and five others were sentenced to 30 days in jail with for refusing to vacate their seats at Patterson's Drugstore lunch counter...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Feb 18, 2011
  • Length: 13:09
  • Purchases: 1
This WE Believe - Race
From: Phil Mariage
Caption: PRX default Piece image
3 'This I Believe' essays from older, middle and young generations on Race

  • Added: Feb 05, 2011
  • Length: 29:00
Black History: Ossie Davis, February 4, 2005
From: Jonathan Thomas Stratman
Series: Who Died Today
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One of our great actors. His mother called him by his initials R.C., but was mis-heard by the county clerk, so we knew him as Ossie.

  • Added: Jan 17, 2011
  • Length: 03:00
A March to Freedom: Martin Luther King
From: Loyola Productions, Inc.
Series: Kaleidoscope
Caption: Martin Luther King press conference, Credit: Marion S. Trikosko
On the anniversary of his birth, the life and work of the civil rights leader, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. His own voice and words make this a mean...

Bought by RadioStPete Florida, KVSC, WGHC-LP 98.3 FM Chicago, KCNP, KCNP and more


  • Added: Dec 07, 2010
  • Length: 44:36
  • Purchases: 6
My Favorite Things at 60
From: Robin Washington
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March 2021 is the 60th anniversary of the release of John Coltrane's definitive jazz work "My Favorite Things." Winner of the National Association...

Bought by KBEM, RadioFreePalmer, KSFR, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, Oregon Public Broadcasting and more


  • Added: Oct 03, 2010
  • Length: 29:22
  • Purchases: 6
"Man In The Mirror: Reflecting On How Man Reflected On MJ"
From: Dred-Scott Keyes
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PERFORMANCE ARTIST, KANENE HOLDER, WAS ONE OF THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE WHO SPONTANEOUSLY GATHERED OUTSIDE OF HARLEM’S FAMED APOLLO THEATERN FOR AN IMPRO...

  • Added: Jun 22, 2010
  • Length: 57:43
Cave Canem, an African-American Writers' Center
From: New Letters on the Air
Caption: PRX default Piece image
This show features the work of younger poets whose first books were published as a result of winning the Cave Canem Poetry Prize, including Natasha...

  • Added: Unknown
  • Length: 29:00
Between Civil War and Civil Rights -1: How the South (or White Supremacy?) Won the War (1865 - 1877)
From: Alan Lipke
Series: Between Civil War and Civil Rights
Caption: An American Terrorist
From the founding of the Ku Klux Klan by ex-Confederate officers, through the defeat of Reconstruction: How history is made and remade, with histor...

Bought by WCPN, WRPI, and KUNM


  • Added: May 05, 2009
  • Length: 58:19
  • Purchases: 3
Aha Moment: Underground Railroad
From: Zak Rosen
Caption: First Congregational Church of Detroit, Credit: http://www.the-ugrr.org/
Therese Peterson started volunteering as an actor in the the Underground Railroad Reenactment tour in late 2005. She says that if she wasn't given...

Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio, KZYX, 90.5 WSNC, KVNF, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and more


  • Added: Apr 28, 2009
  • Length: 04:29
  • Purchases: 15
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.- Assassination and Legacy
From: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Series: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr- a Rewind series
Caption: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
In this- the sixth and final program in this series about Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., the assassination and legacy.

Bought by KUHF, WNSB, WCPN, KUOW, KUOW and more


  • Added: Jan 27, 2009
  • Length: 55:00
  • Purchases: 12