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Lectures in History

1960s African American Voter Registration

Lectures in History

C-SPAN

History, Politics, News

4.1696 Ratings

🗓️ 12 January 2020

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Emory University professor Carol Anderson taught a class about efforts in the early 1960s to register African American voters in Mississippi. She described some of the leaders of the movement, their tactics and the opposition they faced from segregationists. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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This week, a class about efforts in the early 1960s to register African-American voters in Mississippi.

0:11.1

Professor Carol Anderson of Emory University explains.

0:14.2

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0:25.3

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0:31.4

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So, as you know, on Monday, we ended with the Freedom Rides. And those those freedom riders were being funneled into

1:46.1

parchment prison as a way to try to hush them up, to hush them up quietly without the

1:53.9

cameras rolling. Because remember, that visual image was absolutely essential for movement

1:59.8

to be able to see the violence of Jim Crow.

2:04.9

But that didn't mean that this moment was over.

2:09.7

And Bobby Kennedy knew it and Jack Kennedy knew it.

2:16.7

So Jack Kennedy is giving his state of the union address.

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