147. Momentum: The Ripples Made by Ordinary People, Part 2

Here's Where It Gets Interesting

Sharon McMahon

Government, History, Storytelling, Education

4.9 • 15.1K Ratings

🗓️ 24 June 2022

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

On today’s episode of our special series, Momentum: Civil Rights in the 1950s, Sharon continues the story of young Thurgood Marshall as he travels to rural Tennessee on behalf of the NAACP and finds himself on the wrong side of trumped up charges and an angry mob. We also reconnect with George McLaurin and hear about Ada Fisher, two lifelong students who wanted equal opportunities in education and stood firm until they had a victorious Supreme Court ruling. Sharon also catches listeners up with J. Egar Hoover as he begins to transform the Federal Bureau of Investigation, though not without stirring up controversy over his denial of organized crime. What made Hoover so hesitant to pursue mid-century crime bosses?

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0:00.0	Hello friends, welcome. Welcome to our second episode in the special series Momentum.
0:17.8	And each episode does build on the episode before it. So if you haven't listened to episode
0:22.8	one, go back and do that now. And today we're going to continue talking about a little boy
0:29.3	who was born thorough good at in second grade change, just named to Thurgood Marshall,
0:35.9	became an attorney who worked for the end of LACP.
0:42.5	I'm Sharon Lefand and welcome to the Sharon Says So podcast.
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2:07.2	I want to tell you about an incident that happened in the late 1940s following World War
2:12.8	2.
2:13.8	Prior to Harry Truman's presidency, the US armed forces were segregated and so many of
2:19.5	the black service members who returned home having fought the Nazis came back to the United
2:26.8	States to find that they were still living in the segregated Jim Crow South.
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