148. Momentum: The Ripples Made by Ordinary People, Part 3

Here's Where It Gets Interesting

Sharon McMahon

Government, History, Storytelling, Education

4.9 • 15.1K Ratings

🗓️ 27 June 2022

⏱️ 24 minutes

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On today’s episode of our special series, Momentum: Civil Rights in the 1950s, Sharon guides us to a lawsuit years in the making, that shaped America. While some of the names tied with the milestone have been all but lost to history, you will hear many of those uncredited names mentioned in this episode, including McKinley Bernet, Vivian Marshall, and Lucinda Todd. The year was 1952 when Brown v. The Board of Education was argued before the Supreme Court by our friend, Thurgood Marshall. But did you know that the case was actually heard by the high court twice? You also might not know that J. Edgar Hoover, mentioned in previous episodes, was spying on the Supreme Court Justices for decades. What would Hoover have to gain from these warrantless wiretaps?

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0:00.0	Hello friends, welcome. Welcome to the third installment of our special series called Momentum.
0:18.5	And in this series we are examining the ordinary people who did extraordinary things to create
0:26.4	forward motion, momentum, and struggle for freedom in the United States.
0:33.6	I'm Sharon Lefand and welcome to the Sharon Says So podcast.
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1:36.6	In episode two, I started sharing more information about FBI director J. Edgar Hoover
1:42.8	and he is going to come back again in future episodes. But I want to share a couple of other things
1:51.6	about him that are interesting food for thought. There's been many years of speculation about whether
1:57.9	or not organized crime was blackmailing J. Edgar Hoover. And that's one of those things that we
2:03.3	might never know about him. But it has not stopped people from looking. There was one woman in
2:09.3	a particular mille-milli-miki who was very interested in J. Edgar Hoover. And the reason for that
2:14.4	was she had been told as a young woman growing up in the 1950s. She grew up in rural Mississippi.
2:22.0	She had been told stories of her ancestors. And those stories all included the fact that there was this
2:30.8	very powerful man in her family named Edgar. And it was her second cousin and he was passing
2:40.2	for white. And she said that her family told her he was so powerful he could have us all killed.
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