IDKMYDE: The First Desegregation Case Wasn’t Brown
The Breakfast Club
The Black Effect Podcast Network and iHeartPodcasts
4.4 • 14.4K Ratings
🗓️ 4 February 2026
⏱️ 7 minutes
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Summary
Before Brown v. Board of Education, a forgotten court case cracked segregation's
foundation. This episode restores a missing chapter of the civil rights timeline.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.5 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:04.9 | 1969, Malcolm and Martin are gone. |
| 0:07.8 | America is in crisis. |
| 0:09.5 | At a Morehouse college, the students make their move. |
| 0:12.3 | These students, including a young Samuel L. Jackson, |
| 0:15.4 | locked up the members of the board of trustees, including Martin Luther King's senior. |
| 0:20.6 | It's the true story of protests and rebellion in black American history that you'll never |
| 0:24.9 | forget. |
| 0:25.9 | I'm Hans Charles. |
| 0:26.9 | I'm Mena Lake Lemoombo. |
| 0:28.1 | Listen to the A building on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your |
| 0:33.5 | podcasts. |
| 0:34.7 | When segregation was a law, one mysterious black club owner, Charlie Fitzgerald, had his own |
| 0:40.2 | rules. |
| 0:41.2 | Segregation and the day integration at night. |
| 0:44.3 | It was like stepping on another world. |
| 0:46.7 | Was he a businessman? |
| 0:48.1 | A criminal. |
| 0:49.6 | A hero. |
| 0:50.8 | Charlie was an example of power. |
| 0:53.8 | They had to crush him. |
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