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SPECIAL ISeeU EPISODE: MLK Day- Seeing (Me) Is Believing with author Tami Charles
From: I See U with Eddie Robinson
Series: I SEE U with Eddie Robinson Specials
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When Tami Charles’ son was in kindergarten, he asked her: “If Dr. King was such a good guy who wanted all these wonderful things for everyone, Momm...

Bought by Oregon Public Broadcasting, WRKF, RadioStPete Florida, Wyoming Public Radio, WUWM and more


  • Added: Oct 17, 2023
  • Length: 53:30
  • Purchases: 14
A Conversation with Dave Dennis
From: Loki Mulholland
Series: The Uncomfortable Truth: Civil Rights Movement
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Freedom Rider, Dave Dennis, never thought about getting involved in the Civil Rights Movement but he did want a date with a pretty young lady.

  • Added: Jan 13, 2021
  • Length: 01:31:59
The Apple Seed - MLK Special Episode - I Shall Not Be Moved
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: The Apple Seed
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Join us today as we celebrate the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., and we share stories and songs, bringing focus to the Civil Rights Movement.

Bought by RadioStPete Florida, KTXK, WVPE, KSJE, Radio Catskill and more


  • Added: Dec 21, 2020
  • Length: 54:58
  • Purchases: 7
StoryCorps: Natalie Guice Adams and Eli Brown
From: StoryCorps
Series: StoryCorps
Caption: Natalie Guice Adams and Eli Brown at their at their StoryCorps interview in Birmingham, AL on October 2, 2019., Credit: By Emilyn Sosa for StoryCorps.
Former classmates Natalie Guice Adams and Eli Brown reflect for the first time on life after court-ordered desegregation.

Bought by WDBM and WOUB


  • Added: Nov 01, 2019
  • Length: 03:16
  • Purchases: 2
Episode 22 - One Crazy Summer by Rita Williams-Garcia
From: Kitty Felde
Series: Book Club for Kids
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A trio of sisters fly from Brooklyn to Oakland in the late 1960's to get to know their estranged mother. She sends them to a rather unusual summer ...

  • Added: Apr 26, 2016
  • Length: 20:04
Equity in the School System
From: New Visions, New Voices
Series: Education Matters with Pedro Noguera
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In commemoration of the 60th anniversary of the landmark US Supreme Court case Brown versus Board of Education, internationally renowned education ...

  • Added: Mar 06, 2014
  • Length: 01:45
Minneapolis elder Rosa Bogar
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
Caption: Rosa Bogar, Credit: Glen Stubbe
A native of Orangeburg, South Carolina, Rosa Mavins Bogar grew up in a family of 13 children and lived through segregation. Calling Minneapolis her...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Jul 05, 2013
  • Length: 05:04
  • Purchases: 1
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
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