159. Momentum: The Ripples Made by Ordinary People, Part 14

Here's Where It Gets Interesting

Sharon McMahon

Government, History, Storytelling, Education

4.9 • 15.1K Ratings

🗓️ 25 July 2022

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

On today’s episode in our special series, Momentum: Civil Rights in the 1950s, Sharon talks about some of the most important components of a successful movement: money and reputation. Movements take a lot of financial support and many of the organizers worked day jobs with humble salaries. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.? He made $8,000 a year in his position as a minister. But organizing rallies and marches and lectures… filing lawsuits and traveling from city to city? It all costs money.

Learn who supported the work of some of the most influential Civil Rights leaders and organizations. Their celebrity status may surprise you!

Sharon also talks about the 1958 and 1959 Youth Marches for Integrated Schools. Hear how organizers planned effective, large-scale demonstrations, how they were received in Washington D.C., and what newly published book threatened the reputation of the marches and potentially had a hand in their outcomes.

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0:00.0	Hello friends, welcome to the 14th episode in our series Momentum.
0:17.7	For the past several weeks we've been bringing you the stories of people and events that
0:22.7	became a catalyst for a movement.
0:26.5	This movement has been gathering momentum for the better part of the decade.
0:31.7	And now in 1958 we see that momentum spread far and wide across the nation.
0:38.0	Let's dive in.
0:40.2	I'm Sharon McMahon and welcome to the Sharon Says Cell Podcast.
0:53.2	Every household will get help with energy bills this winter.
0:57.7	The UK Government is giving you an extra £400 to ward your bills.
1:03.6	For most households, payments are automatic.
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1:12.3	You will also get even more help with your bills, with the energy price guarantee.
1:17.8	Find out more at gov.uk forward slash help for households today.
1:25.2	What thesis?
1:26.1	The one I've spent two years working on.
1:27.9	Don't have it.
1:28.7	What's the last version you saved?
1:30.4	Got final version, final final version, and no I'm actually serious now.
1:34.0	This is the last version I will never save another version I promise.
1:36.9	Version 2.
1:37.7	Surely that one?
1:38.9	No.
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