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American History Tellers

Wondery

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

4.7 • 18.3K Ratings

🗓️ 3 October 2018

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863, freeing the slaves in much of the South. But the road to freedom—true freedom—would take generations longer for most black Americans.

In this new six-part series, we investigate their struggle, beginning in the heady post-war years of the Forties. Segregation was endemic; it was the law of the South, and the custom of the North and West. No black American escaped its demeaning and often violent grip. But in discovering the power of collective protest, civil rights activists began to make demands for basic equality in restaurants, the workplace and in schools. And as they racked up victories, excitement and determination built that this was a movement with momentum. Could they really do this? Could they make a change and finally—finally—fight off Jim Crow?

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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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0:10.6	Imagine you're in Washington, D.C. on a rainy Saturday in April, 1943.
0:22.0	You're 21, a junior at Howard University, one of the most prestigious historically black
0:28.1	colleges in the nation.
0:30.2	With all this rain, part of you wants nothing more to be inside.
0:34.0	On an ordinary weekend afternoon, you might be at the movies, chatting with your friends
0:38.0	in the dorm, or maybe getting ready for a night out.
0:41.0	Instead, you and three of your classmates are walking silently in the rain.
0:45.7	Your roommate, Ruth, is next to you.
0:48.3	She's biting her lip, lost and thought.
0:50.7	Are you alright?
0:52.2	She looks up at Bitt's startle.
0:53.8	I guess so.
0:54.8	It's just, well, what if they arrest us?
0:57.8	I hope it won't come to that.
0:59.4	But even if they do, they'll have to arrest all of us.
1:02.9	You won't be alone.
1:04.5	The others in the group nod quietly in agreement.
1:07.2	The truth is, though, you're worried, too.
1:10.1	You stop at the corner, waiting for the traffic light to change.
1:13.0	You can feel your heart start racing.
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