Civil Rights - Interview with Peggy Trotter Dammond Preacely | 7

American History Tellers

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Society & Culture, Kids & Family, History, Education For Kids

4.7 • 18.3K Ratings

🗓️ 14 November 2018

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

We conclude our series on the American Civil Right Movement with an interview with a woman who was there, on the front lines of the fight.

Peggy Trotter Dammond Preacely is longtime civil rights activist and artist. She was a Freedom Rider, boarding busses to travel the south in a fight for desegregation, and member of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, participating in sit-ins, marches, and voter registration campaigns. She marched on Washington, was arrested three times, was visited in jail by Martin Luther King Jr., and leads a life defined by her heritage, commitment to nonviolent activism, and the hope for continued change.

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0:00.0	Hey, Prime Members, you can listen to American History Tellers add free on Amazon Music.
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0:07.8	I'm Lindsey Graham and this is American History Tellers.
0:21.2	Our History Your Story.
0:30.0	Just last week we as a nation witnessed and I hope participated in the 2018 midterm elections.
0:47.1	Over 100 million Americans voted making this turnout at 47% of the voting eligible population,
0:53.6	the largest midterm participation since 1966, the first national election after the passage
1:00.2	of the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
1:03.2	By far, most of us who voted selected either a Democrat or a Republican, the two political
1:08.8	parties that have dominated American politics for over the last 150 years.
1:14.2	But how did these two parties come to be?
1:16.8	Why aren't we voting for the Wigs, or Bull Moose, or even the Know-Nothings?
1:21.6	This week we begin a new six-part series on the history of political parties in America,
1:26.8	with special attention on the rise of our two dominant modern parties, the Republicans
1:31.0	and Democrats.
1:32.6	George Washington warned against the rise of political parties, writing in his farewell
1:36.5	address that they are likely in the course of time and things to become potent engines
1:40.8	by which cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert the power of
1:45.9	the people and to use cert for themselves the reigns of government, destroying afterwards
1:51.1	the very engines which have lifted them to unjust dominion.
1:55.2	Join us next week as we explore whether he was right.
1:58.8	This week though, we conclude our series on the American Civil Rights Movement, with an
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