A Civil Rights History Lesson
In The Thick
Futuro Media
4.9 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 4 May 2021
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
Maria and Julio are joined by Jeanne Theoharis, distinguished professor of political science at Brooklyn College, historian and author of “The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks” and co-editor of the new book “Julian Bond’s Time To Teach: A History of the Southern Civil Rights Movement.” They talk about the legacy of activist, politician and educator Julian Bond and the lessons from his lectures - compiled in the new book - on the civil rights movement and what it teaches us about the fight for racial justice and radical change. We also hear from Professor Bond himself through archival interviews and from his widow Pamela Horowitz, co-editor of “Time To Teach”, who was one of the first lawyers hired at the Southern Poverty Law Center. ITT Staff Picks - “From the struggle against Jim Crow to the battle for LGBTQ rights, [Bond] remained convinced that it was necessary to agitate on behalf of the powerless outside the halls of power, but as he got older, he became convinced one had to do it from inside them as well,” writes Robert Greene II about Julian Bond’s life in politics and protest for The Nation. - Jeanne writes for The Washington Post about looking back at our history to understand today’s uprisings in defense of Black lives: “To start the story earlier would mean holding accountable the public officials who treated activists as unreasonable and impatient or who bemoaned police brutality or school inequality but did not rise to action.” - Five ways to avoid whitewashing the civil rights movement, via Coshandra Dillard in Learning for Justice. Vote for ITT! It’s the final days to vote for In The Thick in this year’s Webby’s for the Best General Series in News and Politics! Deadline is this Thursday, May 6th. Photo credit: The Associated Press
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, welcome to In The Thick, a podcast about politics, race, and culture from a POC perspective. |
| 0:14.1 | I'm Maria Inujosa. |
| 0:15.5 | And I'm Julio Ricola Varela. |
| 0:16.9 | And today we have a very special guest. |
| 0:19.0 | Joining us from Brooklyn, New York is Jean Theo Harris, distinguished professor of political science at Brooklyn College, a historian and author of The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks. |
| 0:29.7 | She's co-editor of the new book, Julian Bond's Time to Teach, a history of the Southern Civil Rights Movement. Gene, welcome to the show. |
| 0:40.7 | Thanks for having me. So today, we're going to honor one of the leaders of the Civil Rights |
| 0:46.5 | Movement. And I actually met Julian Bond. I just can't remember where. I was going to say that you |
| 0:53.6 | probably did. I did meet him. And now I was going to say that you probably did. |
| 0:54.6 | I did meet him. And now I'm like, you know, I think it was before we had cameras in our phones. |
| 1:00.7 | But yeah, I mean, Julian Bond is just a hero and a giant in the civil rights movement. He was an incredible human being with, I mean, his humanity just stood out. |
| 1:14.7 | He was an activist. He was an educator. He did pass away in 2015. He was a founding member of the |
| 1:21.2 | student nonviolent coordinating committee, SNCC. He had a political career. He served in the Georgia |
| 1:27.0 | House of Representatives. He had to fight for his He served in the Georgia House of Representatives. |
| 1:28.8 | He had to fight for his seat because of his opposition to the Vietnam War. |
| 1:32.8 | And he was the first African American to be nominated as vice president, though he withdrew his name. |
| 1:38.6 | And Julian Bond was an outspoken activist who fought his entire life, whether it was civil rights to |
| 1:45.2 | being way out of other people on the question of LGBTQ rights, all the way to protesting to |
| 1:51.2 | shut down the Keystone Pipeline. Let's listen to Julian Bond, in his own words, to start |
| 1:57.9 | off this show. This is from a 2002 interview that Julian did with Phyllis |
| 2:02.8 | Leffler of the Explorations in Black Leadership Project at the University of Virginia. |
| 2:08.7 | Everything my parents had told me about responsibility to others, everything I'd learned at the |
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