60. The Civil Rights Movement Part 1- Rights are Never Given

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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

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• United States v. Price et al. 383 U.S. 787 (1966)