Cape Up: Voices of the Movement Podcast
1) Passing the baton
"They’re doing it, and they’re making all the mistakes, and they’re doing it right." Civil rights leaders old and young describe how activism is different today than for the leaders of the 1960s movem...Show More
2) The power of nonviolent resistance
"The violence trained me to be nonviolent." A longtime civil rights activist and a leader from a younger generation discuss the tension that exists when discussing the most effective paths to change.
3) How music propelled the civil rights movement
"Without songs, we couldn’t have had a movement." Civil rights activists describe how in jail, music was the one thing that couldn’t be taken from them — and it propelled the movement forward.
4) How segregationist George Wallace became a model for racial reconciliation
"He was the epitome of the legacy of a slave master, and this man kept my people down." Rep. Barbara Lee and Peggy Wallace Kennedy, daughter of former Alabama governor George Wallace, recount how Wall...Show More
How segregationist George Wallace became a model for racial reconciliation
16:20 | May 16th, 2019
5) Women of the civil rights movement
"The movement never would have happened had it not been for these heroic women." Rep. Barbara Lee and Andrew Young explain why women are so often eliminated from civil rights stories — and why that’s ...Show More
6) The story of Bloody Sunday and today’s pilgrimage to Selma
"I called it good trouble. I called it necessary trouble." Congressman John Lewis and others who were there recall marching across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Ala., to protest the suppression o...Show More
7) How MLK's famous letter was smuggled out of jail
"The Letter from Birmingham Jail became immortal from this combination of very odd circumstances." Clarence B. Jones, Martin Luther King Jr.’s lawyer and occasional speechwriter, describes how he smug...Show More
8) Children 'stripped of innocence'
"No one ever said to me, Are you okay? Are you afraid? Because I was." A member of the Little Rock Nine and a survivor of the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing both lost the illusion of safety in the...Show More
9) The day Martin Luther King Jr. died
"You can only choose what it is you give your life for." Andrew Young, King’s chief strategist with the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, and others who were close to King recall the moment th...Show More