Civil Rights - On The March | 5

American History Tellers

Wondery

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

4.7 • 18.3K Ratings

🗓️ 31 October 2018

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

As the Civil Rights movement entered the landmark years of 1963 and 1964, activists had faced many challenges - but had also won many victories. Now, they sought to launch new campaigns in Alabama and Mississippi and mass demonstrations in Washington D.C. and New York City. In the span of sixteen remarkable months, the movement and the nation itself would be transformed, walking the razor’s edge between triumph and tragedy.

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0:09.0	Imagine a December 1962, cold and overcast day in Birmingham, Alabama.
0:23.8	You're a 42 year old woman home for the holidays from Ohio.
0:27.3	You're walking back to your cousin Mary's home after seeing some old friends.
0:30.7	Those children are so big now. They ought to be as much as they eat.
0:34.8	Suddenly, from a few blocks away, you hear a loud rumbling.
0:38.7	It rattles a few of the windows on the houses around you.
0:41.3	Oh, Lord. That sounded like a big one. What was that, Thunder?
0:45.3	You really have been gone too long. You forgot what dynamite sounds like?
0:49.7	Come on, let's go see if we can help.
0:51.5	You cross the street and hurry toward the rising cloud of gray black smoke up ahead,
0:55.9	hoping that no one was injured.
0:57.7	You hadn't forgotten about the bombings here.
1:00.0	You and your cousin still refer to one neighborhood in town as dynamite hill.
1:04.1	But you don't know if you've ever been as close to one of the blasts.
1:07.2	It's Bethel. They bombed the church again.
1:10.0	She shakes her head.
1:11.3	Again? They bombed it before? This is the third time.
1:15.6	Look, there! Is everyone alright?
1:18.3	Behind a small crowd gathering on the curb, you see the shattered windows of the church
1:22.7	and popping electrical wire, dangling and shaking from the ceiling inside.
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