Civil Rights - Strides Towards Freedom | 2

American History Tellers

Wondery

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

4.7 • 18.3K Ratings

🗓️ 10 October 2018

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

In 1896, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that segregation was legal, on a “separate but equal” basis. But for more than five decades, life for black and white Americans was seldom equal, but always separate.

To fight segregation, the NAACP and others exposed the dismal and debasing conditions in black schools. They won a monumental victory in Brown v. Board of Education—but then a young boy from Chicago named Emmett Till was dredged from the swamps of Mississippi.

Till’s death galvanized the movement. Listening to an activist speak about Till’s murder, one woman would rise to become the face of the fight against segregation. On a city bus in Montgomery, Alabama, Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat.

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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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0:10.0	Imagine that you're a young black parent in a small Virginia town.
0:22.5	It's a cold rainy morning in the early months of 1951, but the stove is keeping the kitchen
0:27.7	warm and breakfast is halfway cooked.
0:30.5	You're waiting for your children to finish getting ready for school.
0:33.1	Ruby, you make sure you don't forget your coat today.
0:36.3	You know that classroom is liable to freeze over before the day is out.
0:39.8	You glance at the clock and stir the eggs in the pan.
0:42.7	They need to hurry up or they'll be late.
0:45.0	You turned your husband, sitting at the kitchen table, sipping his coffee and reading the
0:48.2	paper.
0:49.2	Will you tell them to get going?
0:51.1	He seems lost and thought, but puts his coffee down for a moment.
0:54.4	You all listen to your mother and come on out here.
0:56.8	Your education isn't going to wait for you.
0:59.2	You hope that'll be the extra motivation they need.
1:01.6	But as they continue getting ready, your thoughts can't help but turn to the kind of education
1:05.6	they're really receiving.
1:07.8	The one high school in your county that's open to black students is so overcrowded that
1:12.1	for the last two years they've taught the school day in shifts.
1:15.7	Your classes end at lunchtime every day so the next round of students can come in.
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