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Harlem In Revolt - Part #2

From: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Series: Harlem In Revolt (3 Parts)

Caption: Malcolm X 1964, Credit: Associate Press

This is the second hour of the documentary 'Harlem In Revolt.' It was made by a young writer called Austin Clarke and looked at the state of Harlem...

Bought by KQED

Added: Apr 25, 2014
Length: 54:59
Purchases: 1

Harlem In Revolt - Part #1

From: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Series: Harlem In Revolt (3 Parts)

A little more than fifty years ago, 1963, was a time of great upheaval in the United States. The fight for civil rights was in full force with peop...

Bought by KQED

Added: Apr 25, 2014
Length: 54:59
Purchases: 1

Stokely Carmichael and Black Power

From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon

Stokely Carmichael was a down-home organizer and radical off-beat visionary of racial equality in America 50 years ago, a quicksilver activist, the...

Bought by WRPI

Added: Mar 25, 2014
Length: 59:14
Purchases: 1

Focus Point – Voting Rights

From: New Visions, New Voices
Series: Focus Point with Avis Jones-DeWeever

Whether one thinks that the Voting Rights Act was a sign of improving racial conditions, or a threat to wide access to the ballad box, you’ll be in...

Bought by WCSU-FM and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio

Added: Mar 23, 2014
Length: 04:59
Purchases: 2

Focus Point – America and Race

From: New Visions, New Voices
Series: Focus Point with Avis Jones-DeWeever

Attorney General Eric Holder came under fire for saying that “we are a nation of cowards”. But in the wake of recent racially charge events in the...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio

Added: Mar 23, 2014
Length: 01:59
Purchases: 1

Stronghold

From: From Block2Block

As whites fled Washington D.C. to live in the suburbs in the 1950s, Stronghold was born. This piece reveals how residents gave the neighborhood its...

Added: Feb 23, 2014
Length: 14:07

Honouring Canadian Civil Rights Icon, Rocky Jones

From: Erica Butler

Caption: Rocky Jones speaking at Dalhousie University, February 2013., Credit: Hillary Lindsay

A new portrait of the late Burnley "Rocky" Jones will grace the walls of Dalhousie's Schulich School of Law, thanks to the Black Law Students Assoc...

Added: Feb 17, 2014
Length: 08:18

Reconstructing Republicanism

From: BackStory with the American History Guys
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Favorites

Host Ed Ayers talks with historian Annette Gordon-Reed about the Republican Party’s own civil war in the late 1860s, over the nature of Reconstruct...

Bought by Radio Newark

Added: Oct 28, 2013
Length: 07:09
Purchases: 1

Moments of the Movement -- Joseph Lowery

From: New Visions, New Voices
Series: Moments of the Movement

Rev. Joseph E. Lowery discusses New York Times v. Sullivan, the case in which he was a defendant along with Fred Shuttlesworth, Ralph Abernathy, an...

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio, PRX Remix, KFAI Minneapolis, WVAS, Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi) and more

Added: Jun 24, 2013
Length: 03:29
Purchases: 8

Moments of the Movement - Cecil Williams

From: New Visions, New Voices
Series: Moments of the Movement

Orangeburg, S.C., native Cecil J. Williams began taking pictures of the nascent Civil Rights Movement in his home town at the young age of 15, and ...

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio, KUNM, PRX Remix, KFAI Minneapolis, WVAS and more

Added: Jun 24, 2013
Length: 03:29
Purchases: 9

Between a Rock and a Hard Place

From: BackStory with the American History Guys
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Favorites

BackStory producers Eric Mennel and Nell Boeschenstein visit Harper’s Ferry, West Virginia to tell the story of a monument in honor of Heyward Shep...

Bought by WABE and Radio Newark

Added: May 28, 2013
Length: 10:49
Purchases: 2

Segregation Now, Segregation Forever: The Infamous Words of George Wallace

From: Radio Diaries
Series: Audio History Project

On the 50th anniversary of Wallace’s inaugural speech as the Governor of Alabama, Radio Diaries tells the story behind those infamous words, and th...

Bought by The Story and PRX Remix

Added: Feb 26, 2013
Length: 10:23
Purchases: 2

Strange Fruit: Voices of a Lynching

From: Radio Diaries
Series: Audio History Project

Poet and songwriter Abel Meeropol wrote that lament after seeing a photograph of two black teenagers hanging from a tree.

Bought by PRX Remix, Marfa Public Radio, KUER, WMMT, KFAI Minneapolis and more

Added: Feb 19, 2013
Length: 14:35
Purchases: 6

WorldCanvass: The Rupture of Civil War

From: Joan Kjaer
Series: WorldCanvass

Historical perspective on the Civil War and its effect on average Americans.

Added: Feb 09, 2013
Length: 01:51:07

Lincoln and the Emancipation Proclamation

From: NPR Illinois

A one-hour program drawn from the 10th Annual Lincoln Legacy Lecture Series, including a discussion of the events leading up to President Lincoln's...

Bought by WMUU-LP and KMXT

Added: Feb 05, 2013
Length: 59:00
Purchases: 2

Brigham Young: American Moses?

From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes

Brigham Young was a rough-hewn transient from New York whose life was electrified by the Mormon faith. He married more than 50 women, and transform...

Bought by WJCT and WFHB

Added: Jan 17, 2013
Length: 28:59
Purchases: 2

Aftermath

From: Michelle Boyd
Series: "I don't recall."

The final piece in a three-part sound collage that memorializes African American men and women who were tortured by Chicago Police officers in the ...

Added: Nov 28, 2012
Length: 01:00

America's Great Migration: 1915-1970 Part One

From: Barry Vogel
Series: Radio Curious

Radio Curious visits with Pulitzer Prize winner, Isabel Wilkerson, author of “The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration...

Added: Oct 15, 2012
Length: 29:02

Pro-Slavery Constitution

From: Zach Miller
Series: BeyondtheBlackLetter

The greatest re-write in American constitutional history, on this episode of BeyondtheBlackLetter.

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, and PRX Remix

Added: May 09, 2012
Length: 20:25
Purchases: 3

The 1992 LA Rebellion: Twenty Years Later

From: Dred-Scott Keyes

The Cutting Edge looks at the causes and aftermath of the 1992 L.A. rebellion.

Added: Apr 29, 2012
Length: 01:00:13

May 19th, 2011 Shomburg Symposium on Malcolm X: A Life of Re-Invention.

From: Dred-Scott Keyes

The Cutting Edge presents excerpts from a symposium on Malcolm X, held at the Shomburg Center after the release of the late Manning Marable's book,...

Added: Jun 11, 2011
Length: 59:09

How the White House Got Its Name

From: Rebecca Sheir

Caption: Dr. Clarence Lusane is author of The Black History of the White House., Credit: Rebecca Sheir

Hint: It doesn't have a whole lot to do with paint swatches...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, PRX Remix, and New Hampshire Public Radio

Added: Apr 13, 2011
Length: 03:19
Purchases: 3

Belva Davis on reporting during the tumultuous ‘60s

From: KALW

Caption: elva Davis (right) interviewing Coretta Scott King., Credit: Courtesy of Belva Davis

In 1964, the Republican Party was holding its convention in San Francisco. Barry Goldwater was running for president. President Johnson had recentl...

Bought by PRX Remix