PRX - Pieces for Topic: Historical
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To honor the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment, we take a trip to Green-Wood cemetery to the grave of Sarah Smith Garnet, one of Brooklyn's B...
Bought by WCNY and KICI Iowa City
- Added: Nov 18, 2020
- Length: 12:56
- Purchases: 2
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
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
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
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
- Added: Jan 22, 2009
- Length: 18:36
