Civil rights — United States — History.

  • Phone-in questions (Part 4 of 4)

    This is the fourth and final program produced by Marcia Tompkins in a series called “You must go home again: 1970,” about her hometown of Tuscaloosa, Alabama. The series is a sequel to her 1965 series of the same title. In this live program, Tompkins answers questions from call-in listeners, but first plays a 15…

  • The South wants to help, too (Part 2 of 2)

    This second half of the recording of speeches from the banquet held for the Southern Committee to Elect the Next President of the United States on June 17, 1963 features the concluding speech made by Tom Anderson, syndicated columnist and president, editor in chief, majority holder, and publisher of Farm and Ranch Magazine. Recorded by…

  • Profiles of movement activists : part 1 / produced by Iemanja Sibanye.

    Seven Civil Rights activists reflect on their experiences growing up in the segregated South, attending their first mass meetings, organizing campus demonstrations, and going through their first experiences in jail. Also includes Civil Rights Freedom Songs written to document their experiences.|PROFILES OF MOVEMENT ACTIVISTS, PART I / produced by Iemanja Sibanye. – SERIES: Voices of…

  • PROFILES OF MOVEMENT ACTIVISTS : part 2 / produced by Iemanja Sibanye.

    E.D. Nixon, a movment leader in Montogomery, Alabama, chronicles the behind the scenes activities that sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycott. Dorothy Cotton then recalls the Citizenship Education Class organizing efforts. Fannie Lou Hamer talks about the first time she registered to vote. And, finally, Reverend Bernard Lafayette, a leader of the Nashville student sit-in movement,…

  • They could not kill the spirit / produced by Brenda McCallum.

    Documentary on Black responses to racism, and stategies of accomodation to overt protest. Recounts early battles against descrimination; right-to-vote clubs in the 1930s and 40s, housing desegregation in the 40s and 50s, and the impact of racially mixed unions.

  • SPOKEN WORD : CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT ORATORY/ produced by Iemanja Sibanye.

    Excerpts from historic speeches delivered during the Civil Rights movment. Includes the words of Martin Luther King, Jr., Fannie Lou Hamer, Dick Gregory, and Malcolm X.|SPOKEN WORD : CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT ORATORY / produced by Iemanja Sibanye. – SERIES: Voices of the Civil Rights movement| no. 6. – Presents excerpts from historic speeches delivered during…

  • Freedom songs : music of the Civil Rights movement / produced by Iemanja Sibanye.

    Dr. Bernice Reagon, Director of the Program in Black American Culture at the Smithsonian’s Museum of American Hisotry, examines how the freedom songs articulated community concerns, and talks about her experiences as a singer and activist in the Albany, Georgia, movement.|FREEDOM SONGS : MUSIC OF THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT / Dr. Bernice Reagon| produced by…

  • The Reverend Fred Shuttleworth / produced by Iemanja Sibanye.

    Reverend Fred Shuttlesworth gives a moving account of his challenge to Alabama segregationists Eugene ‘Bull’ Connor and Governor George Wallace. During the movement, Reverend Shuttlesworth was jailed 30 times, as well as survived two mob attacks, five convictions, and two bombings — one of which was aimed at his home on Christmas Eve.|REVEREND FRED SHUTTLEWORTH…

  • The Reverend Charles Sherrod / produced by Iemanja Sibanye.

    Reverend Charles Sherrod, a ministerial student in Virginia, traveled to Albany, Georgia, to work with the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) in 1961. He helped organize mass demonstrations and was jailed several times by city officials. Reverend Sherrod descibes how his belief in God fueled his commitment to truth and justice.|THE REVEREND CHARLES SHERROD /…

  • The Reverend Vincent Harding / produced by Iemanja Sibanye.

    Reverend Vincent Harding, founder of the Institute of the Black World in Atlanta, Georgia, describes how the Black Church has historically shaped the Black American struggle for freedom, and likewise, the impact of the Civil Rights movement on Church doctrine and practices.|THE REVEREND VINCENT HARDING / produced by Iemanja Sibanye. – SERIES: Voices of the…