meta_pixel
Tapesearch Logo
Log in
Lectures in History

Sit-ins and the Civil Rights Movement

Lectures in History

C-SPAN

History, Politics, News

4.1696 Ratings

🗓️ 19 January 2019

⏱️ 73 minutes

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

University of Massachusetts Amherst professor Traci Parker talks about the lunch counter sit-ins that took place in the early 1960s as part of the civil rights movement. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0

Ready to launch your business? Get started with the commerce platform made for entrepreneurs. Shopify is specially designed to help you start, run and grow your business with easy customizable themes that let you build your brand. Marketing tools that get your products out there. Integrated shipping solutions that actually save you time from startups to scale ups online, in person and on the go. Shopify is made

0:22.7

for entrepreneurs like you.

0:24.5

Sign up for your $1 a month trial

0:26.5

at Shopify.com slash setup.

0:30.6

On your mark. Yes, sir.

0:33.0

We're back in the nation's

0:34.9

favorite tent. Let's do this.

0:36.8

And it's packed with a fresh batch of famous faces.

0:39.9

As long as it's edible, I'd be happy.

0:43.0

Don't chalk, trying my teeth.

0:45.2

How can it be?

0:46.1

The great celebrity baker for Stand Up to Cancer on Channel 4.

0:49.5

Stream now.

0:50.9

Tracy Parker talks about the lunch counter sit-ins that took place in the early 1960s as part of the civil rights movement.

0:58.9

She describes how organizers of these protests hope to bring about change for both African-American consumers and workers in department stores.

1:07.0

Her class also compares social activism then and now and explores the role of social media.

1:13.5

This class runs about 70 minutes. Okay, so remember last week we discussed African-Americans'

1:20.9

women's challenges to Jim Crowe on modes of public transportation, right? So we talked about

1:25.9

Coretta Scott King and Rosa Parks.

1:28.2

And we briefly touched on the integration of schools.

1:31.3

Another major site of conflict were lunch counters, restaurants,

1:35.1

five and dimes, and department stores.

...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from C-SPAN, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of C-SPAN and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.

Copyright © Tapesearch 2025.