Moments of the Movement Podcast
1) Dorie Ann Ladner and Dr. Joyce Ann Ladner
The Civil Rights Movement is sometimes portrayed as the courageous efforts of individual men and women whose bigger-than-life heroism transformed American society. While working to prepare for the Mar...Show More
2) Gwendolyn Simmons
Nearly 100 years after the Emancipation Proclamation, many of the Southern states in America were segregated and openly oppressive to African Americans. With themes of civil resistance, nonviolent pro...Show More
3) Esther Terry
When the Civil Rights Movement began to gain traction throughout the south, much of the credit for its success rightly went to the college students from the nation’s Historically Black Colleges and Un...Show More
4) David and Toko Ackerman
It seems almost natural that a movement with an aim of racial equity would include the young and the old, men and women, Northerners and Southerners, as well as various races. The husband and wife tea...Show More
5) Courtland Cox
The 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom remains the most significant mass gathering in the Civil Rights Movement, and its success was largely due to the efforts of the many committee members...Show More
6) William Anderson - MOTM
As much as the Civil Rights Movement was driven by the men and women who boldly took steps toward change, it was clear that not much could be done without well-run organizations taking the lead. Ameri...Show More
7) Robert Hayling - MOTM
Dentist Robert Hayling has been hailed as the "father" of the Saint Augustine, Fla., civil rights movement. The NAACP recruited Hayling in the early 1960s to organize demonstrations and coordinate vis...Show More
8) Phil Hutchings, March on Washington - MOTM
The March on Washington was one of the largest organized efforts for human rights in United States history. With its focus on civil and economic rights for African Americans, the overarching theme of ...Show More
9) Dorie Ann Ladner and Dr. Joyce Ann Ladner, March on Washington - MOTM
1963 was a momentous year for the Civil Rights Movement. Sit-ins, Freedom Rides, and voter-registration campaigns merged to galvanize people for the historic March in Washington on August 28. As two s...Show More
10) Phil Hutchings - Moments of the Movement
While working toward similar goals of racial respect and human dignity, the paths various civil rights organizations took to achieve these goals sometimes varied—occasionally within the same organizat...Show More