Show Notes
Apologies for the lateness of the post, our dashboard encountered a technical difficulty that showed my podcasts didn't exist and had to be fixed before an upload could happen. Thanks for your patience. After being at Montgomery last weekend I wanted to do a deep dive into what I never learned as a kid. What led to the Civil Rights movement, its danger, its courage. Part one takes us through the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and part two takes us beyond.
SOURCES
U.S. Congressional Records, Joint Committee on Reconstruction, 1866 (Memphis Massacre testimony)
FBI Files on the murders of Medgar Evers, Emmett Till, and the Mississippi Burning case (MIBURN) — available through FOIA requests and the University of Mississippi's Mississippi Digital Library
Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission Records — Mississippi Department of Archives and History (publicly available since 1998)
Department of Justice Civil Rights Division records and case files
NAACP Anti-Lynching Campaign Records — Library of Congress
Congressional Record, Senate filibuster of the Civil Rights Act, March–June 1964
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Mlinar, Zeljko, et al. Memphis Sanitation Strike Archives — Memphis Public Library Special Collections
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Plessy v. Ferguson, 163 U.S. 537 (1896)
Smith v. Allwright, 321 U.S. 649 (1944)
Boynton v. Virginia, 364 U.S. 454 (1960)
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United States v. Pric
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