Railroad town, earning it the nickname pub city. Today this southcentral Mississippi City is best known as the home of the university of southern minute southern mississippi and camp shelby, one of the countrys largest Training Bases. With the help of our comcast training partners, over the next hour here how they became a center for the Civil Rights Movement. Instance, weg, for had registration. Africanamericans could not register. Everything was still segregated. A lot of the businesses, restaurants, and hotels were still under these kind of old jim crow laws. Later, the story of a hattiesburg washerwoman who saved her lifes earnings and then gave it all away. She started out by boiling clothes and a big tub in the house. She would wash them, she would hang them up to dry, and when she ironed them she would put them out there as well. She started out by charging a dime, if you can believe that. From a dime i guess she went to a quarter and then maybe up to . 50 and a dollar. What was
Stoically carmichael and caught the man who started the whole thing, James Meredith and we were like sheep lucky to capture all of those. Host lets backtrack about the march how did you choose the title . Guest the title is down to the crossroads civil rights, black power, and the meredith march against fear the civilrights march begins memphis and ends three weeks later in jackson. During those three weeks the Civilrights Movement transforms with the crossroads. The call for black power is first heard. So to unveil the slogan to generate controversy it immediately generates swelling of the enthusiasm with the black people and a new direction of politics over the course of time because it brought together a civilrights leaders from all across the country to put them in to a repertory of black politics moving through mississippi that highlighted the key divisions and also the key strengths. Host speaking of dramatizing of march the people of my generation especially black parents will s
Power and the meredith march against fear. And at the university of memphis for fester tells the story of James Meredith the first africanamerican admitted to the university of mississippi who was shot upon his return to the state to promote Voter Registration. The ensuing civil rights battle rock the black Power Movement to the forefront. The program is about an hour. Host what a pleasure to be with you today to talk about your book. You know i looked at its cover and i was immediately intrigued by it. Some say you cant judge a book i its cover but lets start by judging this book by its cover. Tell me about the cover. Guest thanks for having me. It was actually quite a struggle to pick the perfect image for the cover. It is a picture from the last day of the march june 26, 1966 as leaders lead the final leg of the meredith march into jackson mississippi and it was kind of a struggle to pick the right picture because on the one hand we wanted to capture its Human Element and capture th
Who was shot upon his return to the state promote Voter Registration. The ensuing civil rights battle as meredith recovered about the black Power Movement to the forefront. The program is about an hour. Was a pleasure to be with you today to talk about your book. You know, i looked at the cover and i was immediately intrigued by it. Some say you cant judge a book by its cover but lets look at this cover. Tell me about whats on it. Guest thank you for having me. It was quite a struggle to pick perfect image for the cover. Its a picture from the last day of the march, june 26 as the leaders lead the march the final leg of the meredith march into jackson insisted be. And it was kind of a struggle to pick the right picture because on the one hand, you want to capture the Human Element and of the many people that were part of this long threeweek civil rights demonstration that started in memphis and ended at jackson and on the other hand you want to highlight some of the key figures in the
This bed a couple of days. Its impossible the characterize White America could revert talking about a huge swath of people. You really do see everything across the political spectrum from those who embrace the notions and those who say their civil rights activist, weve been fighting for black power all along. Other liberal whites to say were starting to drift away from the ideals. They tend to find a movement in terms of particularly nonviolent action and bringing integration. When such integration is irrelevant. And then youve got a growing voice of the new right to read more and more conservative suzie the Civil Rights Movement as moving too fast, tie it into a broader expansion of liberal programs. It is the political move that will help to elect Richard Nixon to the presidency. The political move that is elected Ronald Reagan to be governor of california right about the same time. And you present fascinating glimpses of this mind set on the conservative right that allows of backlas