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Interviews on global affairs and daily life
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Interview Archives: Civil Rights
Thursday January 05, 2012, 10:06 AM
The ACLU's Project on Speech, Privacy, and Technology
Ed Yohnka, Director of Communications and Public Policy, the American Civil Liberties Union of Illinois
Host: David Inge
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Categories: Civil Rights • Freedom of Speech
Tuesday May 03, 2011, 10:06 AM
Freedom Riders 1961 and the Struggle for Racial Justice
Raymond Arsenault, Ph.D., the John Hope Franklin Professor of Southern History, the University of South Florida, St. Petersberg
Thomas M. Armstrong III, Civil Rights Activist and Freedom Rider; author of the book, Autobiography of a Freedom Rider
Host: David Inge
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- guest profile (Professor Arsenault)
- guest website
- guest profile (Mr. Armstrong)
- Professor Arsenault's blog on the freedom ride
Categories: Civil Rights • History • United States history
Friday April 08, 2011, 10:06 AM
Freedom is Not Enough: The Moynihan Report and America's Struggle Over Black Family Life from LBJ to Obama
James T. Patterson, Ph.D., the Ford Foundation Professor of History Emeritus, Brown University
Host: David Inge
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Categories: Civil Rights • Community • Family • History • United States history • Politics • Poverty • Race/Ethnicity • African-American
Friday January 28, 2011, 10:06 AM
The South and America Since World War II
James C. Cobb, Ph.D., Spalding Distinguished Research Professor, University of Georgia
Host: David Inge
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Categories: Civil Rights • History • United States history
Tuesday January 11, 2011, 11:06 AM
At the Dark End of the Street: Black Women, Rape, and Resistance--a New History of the Cvil Rights to the Rise of Black Power
Danielle L. McGuire, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of History, Department of History, Wayne State University
Host: David Inge
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Categories: Civil Rights • Gender issues • History • United States history • Race/Ethnicity • African-American • Violence
Monday June 28, 2010, 11:06 AM
Freedom Summer: The Savage Season that Made Mississippi Burn and Made America a Democracy
Bruce Watson, Writer, Historian, Journalist
Host: David Inge
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Categories: Civil Rights • History • United States history
Thursday June 10, 2010, 10:06 AM
Illegal Racial Discrimination in Jury Selection: A Continuing Legacy
Cathleen Price, J.D., Cooperating Senior Attorney, Equal Justice Initiative
Host: David Inge
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- Ms. Price's profile
- Equal Justice Initiative's Report Illegal Racial Discrimination in Jury Selection: A Continuing Legacy
Categories: Civil Rights • Criminal Justice • Justice • Law
Tuesday April 27, 2010, 11:06 AM
The Southern Poverty Law Center’s March 2010 Report: "Patriot" Groups, Militias Surge in Number in Past Year, and Militias in the News
Mark Potok, Director, Intelligence Project, Southern Poverty Law Center
Host: Celeste Quinn
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Categories: Civil Rights • Crime • Government • Law • Terrorism • Hate Groups/Militias
Monday February 22, 2010, 10:06 AM
Intersections of International and Domestic Law: Human Rights in the United States and Abroad
Elizabeth Andersen, J.D., Executive Director, and Executive Vice President of the American Society of International Law
Host: David Inge
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Categories: Civil Rights • Human Rights • International Affairs • Law • United States • Asia • Africa • Caribbean • Central America • Europe • Middle East • South America
Thursday January 21, 2010, 10:06 AM
Freedom's Teacher: The Life of Septima Clark
Katherine Mellen Charron, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of History, North Carolina State University
Host: David Inge
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Categories: Biography • Civil Rights • Gender issues • History • United States history
