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Impact of Influence: The Murdaugh Family Murders and Other Cases

Special Father's Day Episode, Seton's Dad's Involvement In The Civil Rights Fight

Impact of Influence: The Murdaugh Family Murders and Other Cases

Matt Harris and Seton Tucker

True Crime

4.12.9K Ratings

🗓️ 16 June 2024

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

For this special Father's Day episode we hear from Seton's father, Matt Siembieda. This episode was originally on The Wicked South Podcast. Matt Siembieda is an attorney and law professor at Temple Law School. He was also involved in the civil rights movement and he gives us his firsthand account of his involvement. From seemingly insignificant small towns like Hampton, South Carolina, to historic landmark locations like Selma, Alabama, crusaders at home and from abroad walked a hostile road of racism and resistance to write a better chapter of American history. Seton Tucker and Matt Harris also host the podcast, Impact of Influence Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Happy Father's Day out there to all the dads and I am dedicating this episode to my dad. It originally aired on the Wicked South Podcast,

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which we have big plans for.

1:28.6

We're gonna do a whole series.

1:31.2

But this is my dad's story of being a civil rights activist and we're going to start off with journalist Michael DeWitt.

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It's a basic rule of storytelling and a golden rule for humanity.

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For every villain, there should be a hero to stand in their way and fight for what is right.

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The civil rights struggles of the 1960s reflect the culmination of dark centuries of wickedness and

1:56.5

injustice in America and in the South.

1:59.4

It was a struggle that swept our entire nation from seemingly insignificant small towns like Hampton, South Carolina,

2:07.0

to cities like Selma and Montgomery, Alabama, and on to the Capitol in Washington, D.C.

2:12.4

It was a decade of many villains and a few courageous heroes.

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