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On Point with Meghna Chakrabarti

Exploring the history and future of Atlanta's civil rights legacy

On Point with Meghna Chakrabarti

WBUR

News, On Point, Npr, Talk Show, Daily

4.33.9K Ratings

🗓️ 17 January 2022

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Atlanta has been the cradle of civil rights leadership in the past. But what about its future? We explore Atlanta's legacy, and future leadership in the pursuit of civil rights. Charles Black, Nsé Ufot and Maurice Hobson join Meghna Chakrabarti.

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0:49.0

This is on point. I'm Meg Nechakrabardi.

0:52.1

In 1960, Georgian Thomas was 18 years old and headed to college in Atlanta, Georgia.

0:59.7

Georgian is black.

1:01.0

She grew up in Gary, Indiana, and she says she didn't think too much about race at the time.

1:06.6

She had black and white friends at school.

1:09.2

She knew black families and white families in her neighborhood in Gary.

1:13.8

Atlanta was different.

1:16.5

Georgian's mother went to Spellman College, a historically black college for women,

1:20.3

and so Georgian went there too.

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