Introducing Holy Week

How to Age Up

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Education, Social Sciences, Science, Society & Culture, Self-improvement

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🗓️ 13 March 2023

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

Holy Week: The story of a revolution undone. The assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on April 4, 1968, is often recounted as a conclusion to a powerful era of civil rights in America, but how did this hero’s murder come to be the stitching used to tie together a narrative of victory? The week that followed his killing was one of the most fiery, disruptive, and revolutionary, and is nearly forgotten. Over the course of eight episodes, Holy Week brings forward the stories of the activists who turned heartbreak into action, families scorched by chaos, and politicians who worked to contain the grief. Seven days diverted the course of a social revolution and set the stage for modern clashes over voting rights, redlining, critical race theory, and the role of racial unrest in today’s post–George Floyd reckoning. Subscribe and listen to all 8 episodes coming March 14: theatlantic.com/holyweek Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hi How-To listeners, this is Rebecca Rashid, producer of the How-To series here at The Atlantic.
0:08.1	And I have a very special guest with me in the studio today.
0:11.3	Hey, I'm Van Newkirk, a senior editor with The Atlantic, and most importantly, I'm a podcaster.
0:17.6	Hey Van, how's it going?
0:18.8	It's going all right.
0:20.3	If you've kept track of the podcasts we're making here at The Atlantic,
0:23.6	you might already be a fan of floodlines, which Van hosted back in 2020.
0:28.8	Today, he has a new show to share with you.
0:31.1	It's called Holy Week.
0:33.2	Van, could you tell our How-To listeners what Holy Week is about?
0:37.6	Yeah, this show is about the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. in 1968.
0:43.2	Most importantly, it's about the week after that assassination.
0:46.7	So in over a hundred cities, thousands of people went out into the streets
0:52.3	in uprisings or rebellions or riots, whatever you want to call it,
0:56.3	that were the most extensive in America between the Civil War and actually 2020,
1:01.7	when George Floyd was killed.
1:03.3	And why turn to this specific moment in history?
1:07.1	Well, for me, this time has always been one that's really interesting and worth probing
1:13.2	when thinking about the larger arc of American history.
1:16.0	So right now, we have a sort of standard narrative of the Civil Rights movement.
1:20.4	Things are bad, they got better.
1:22.3	Most histories kind of cut things off at like 65 when the Voting Rights Act was passed.
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