From the historic campus of Hillsdale College in Hillsdale, Michigan, where the good, the true, and the beautiful are taught, nurtured, and honored, this is the Radio Free Hillsdale Hour, bringing the activity and education of the college to listeners across the country.

Propaganda and stubborn ignorance has it that the advance of capitalism benefits only the rich, but the evidence refutes it.

This is your host, Scott Bertrand, and that's the late Dr. Walter E. Williams.

We'll hear more from him later on from a previous lecture on entrepreneurship given here at Hillsdale College.

Our first guest on today's program is Dr. Paul Moreno, William and Bernie Scrooock chair in constitutional history,

Professor of History and Dean of Social Sciences at Hillsdale College.

Dr. Marino, thanks for joining us.

Thanks for having me on.

We talked today about the new online course from Hillsdale College, now available at

online.hillsdale.edu, and it is on Civil Rights in American History, a nine course series, now available,

as I said, at online.hillsdale.edu. Dr. Marino is one of your professors leading those lectures.

He does three of those lectures for us in this online course. Tell us a little bit about this course, you know,

as a whole. What is this civil rights in American history trying to cover for people?

Well, the civil rights movement in the 1950s and 60s is maybe the most important social movement

and cultural movement in American history because in that effort to vindicate what were the,

you know, understood to be the civil rights

of African Americans in the 19th century, we really set off a whole rights revolution.

Lots of other groups in America began to make the same kinds of claims using the same tactics

and vocabulary, the women's rights movement, the elderly, you know, criminal defendants, I mean, one group after another.

So it really shaped what's often referred to as identity politics, as we understand today.

We go back early, Dr. Kevin Porteus, who's been on the program before, talks about civil rights and the American founding and the ideology of slavery.

Dr. Lucas Morel, who's doing some workforce at the Kirby Center in Washington, D.C.

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