US Civil rights: fighting for freedom | A HistoryExtra podcast series
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MembershipEpisode 1The lynching of Emmett Till. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.
The brutal murder of black teenager Emmett Till appalled America, and added fuel to the fledgling civil rights movement. Experts Devery Anderson and Adriane Lentz-Smith revisit the event
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Episode 2The Montgomery bus boycott. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.
Why did Rosa Parks refuse to give up her bus seat? Historians Jeanne Theoharis and Mia Bay unpick that question as they explore the protest that captivated the nation
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Episode 3The March on Washington. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.
“I have a dream”, Martin Luther King Jr told the 250,000 protestors gathered before him in the nation’s capital. Experts Jonathan Eig and Clayborne Carson consider the 1963 march that made history
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Episode 4The 1964 Civil Rights Act. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.
How successful was the 1964 Civil Rights Act? Dr Tomiko Nagin-Brown and Dr Rebecca Brueckmann explore the landmark legislation, as well as the case of the Little Rock Nine
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Episode 5Malcolm X’s assassination. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.
In 1965 Malcolm X was shot dead in New York. Dr Clarence Lang and Dr Ashley Farmer explore the activist’s assassination, and his influence on Black Power
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Episode 6Legacy. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.
How were 2020’s Black Lives Matter protests linked to the mid-century struggle for racial equality? Dr Adriane Lentz-Smith and Dr Kennetta Hammond Perry consider the tangled legacy of Civil Rights
