Civil Rights Movement
Mabhuku
-
0:30Chikamu 1: Good evening America. 189s · Speaker 1
Good evening America. Good evening and welcome to Lazy. The show where we look back at the decade that shook this country and this nation to its very core, the 1960s. My name is Wat Henderson and tonight we're not here to give you some hist…
-
3:40
What was America like before the Civil Rights Movement truly ignited? Thank you, Walt, and thank you for having me on this show tonight. To understand the Civil Rights Movement, you must first understand the world that made it inevitable. A…
-
5:00Chikamu 3: are talking about 15 years ago. 185s · Speaker 1
are talking about 15 years ago. Now, let me give you some numbers. In 1960, Mississippi, one of the states with the largest black population in the entire South, had only 5% of eligible black voters registered to vote. 5%. This was not beca…
-
8:06Chikamu 4: Let me tell you what it felt to live inside of numbers. 269s · Speaker 2
Let me tell you what it felt to live inside of numbers. I was born in Selma, Alabama in 1941. I grew up knowing that there were places I could not go, water fountain I could not drink from, seats on a bus I could not sit in, not because of …
-
12:37Chikamu 5: I want to turn now to a man who spread this movement from an entirely different vantage point. 270s · Speaker 3
I want to turn now to a man who spread this movement from an entirely different vantage point. Not in the streets, not on the bridge, but in the halls of power in Washington DC, where the laws were being debated, negotiated, and ultimately …
-
17:07
Thank you for your honesty, your courage, and your truth tonight. You have given us not just history this evening, you gave us consciousness. And in 1975, consciousness is still a radical act. The civil rights movement did not begin with a …