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In Black America Podcast: At the Dark End of the Street | KUT.org
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Stuff You Missed in History Class
The Freedom Rides: Nashville Steps Up — When Nashville college students picked up where CORE riders stopped, they were eventually incarcerated in Mississippi. Yet more riders kept coming. Tune in to learn more about this major victory for the Civil Rights movement in this follow-up episode.
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Hidden Pattern Of Rape Helped Stir Civil Rights Movement : NPR
Recy Taylor was a 24-year-old mother when she was abducted at gunpoint and gang raped by a group of white men in Alabama in 1944. An activist named Rosa Parks was sent to investigate the attack. Taylor’s case, and a number of others like hers, helped spark the civil rights movement. Danielle Lynn McGuire explores the story and the pattern of racist, sexual assaults on black women, in her book, "At the Dark End of the Street". In Tell Me More’s weekly "Behind Closed Doors" conversation, host Michel Martin speaks with the author as well as with rape survivor, Recy Taylor.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=134131369
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Surprise At Ernest Withers Revelations : NPR
Ernest Withers is known as the official photographer of the Civil Rights movement, but a new investigation by the Memphis Commercial Appeal newspaper reveals he was also a spy for the FBI — informing on the thoughts and movements of Martin Luther King Jr. and others. Earl Caldwell,who knew Withers, offers his insight. Caldwell is a professor at the Hampton University’s Scripps Howard School of Journalism and Communications in Hampton, Va.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=129861228
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