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

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. SOURCESU.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 LibraryMississippi State Sovereignty Commission Records — Mississippi Department of Archives and History (publicly available since 1998)Department of Justice Civil Rights Division records and case filesNAACP Anti-Lynching Campaign Records — Library of CongressCongressional Record, Senate filibuster of the Civil Rights Act, March–June 1964Branch, Taylor. Parting the Waters: America in the King Years, 1954–63 (1988). Simon & Schuster.Branch, Taylor. Pillar of Fire: America in the King Years, 1963–65 (1998). Simon & Schuster.Branch, Taylor. At Canaan's Edge: America in the King Years, 1965–68 (2006). Simon & Schuster.Berman, Ari. Give Us the Ballot: The Modern Struggle for Voting Rights in America (2015). Farrar, Straus and Giroux.Anderson, Carol. White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide (2016). Bloomsbury.Anderson, Carol. One Person, No Vote: How Voter Suppression Is Destroying Our Democracy (2018). Bloomsbury.Du Bois, W.E.B. Black Reconstruction in America, 1860–1880 (1935). Harcourt, Brace.Garrow, David J. Bearing the Cross: Martin Luther King Jr. and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (1986). William Morrow.Hamer, Fannie Lou. The Speeches of Fannie Lou Hamer: To Tell It Like It Is (2011). University Press of Mississippi.Lewis, John, with Michael D'Orso. Walking with the Wind: A Memoir of the Movement (1998). Simon & Schuster.Litwack, Leon F. Trouble in Mind: Black Southerners in the Age of Jim Crow (1998). Knopf.Marable, Manning. Race, Reform, and Rebellion: The Second Reconstruction and Beyond in Black America, 1945–2006 (2007). University Press of Mississippi.McAdam, Doug. Freedom Summer (1988). Oxford University Press.McWhorter, Diane. Carry Me Home: Birmingham, Alabama — The Climactic Battle of the Civil Rights Revolution (2001). Simon & Schuster.Payne, Charles M. I've Got the Light of Freedom: The Organizing Tradition and the Mississippi Freedom Struggle (1995). University of California Press.Stevenson, Bryan. Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption (2014). Spiegel & Grau.Tyson, Timothy B. The Blood of Emmett Till (2017). Simon & Schuster.Wells-Barnett, Ida B. Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases (1892). New York Age Print.Wells-Barnett, Ida B. A Red Record: Tabulated Statistics and Alleged Causes of Lynching in the United States (1895). Donohue & Henneberry.Wilkerson, Isabel. The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration (2010). Random House.Woodward, C. Vann. The Strange Career of Jim Crow (1955). Oxford University Press.Honey, Michael K. Going Down Jericho Road: The Memphis Strike, Martin Luther King's Last Campaign (2007). W.W. Norton.Mlinar, Zeljko, et al. Memphis Sanitation Strike Archives — Memphis Public Library Special CollectionsTucker, David M. Memphis Since Crump: Bossism, Blacks, and Civic Reformers, 1948–1968 (1980). University of Tennessee Press.Wright, Sharon D. Race, Power, and Political Emergence in Memphis (2000). Garland Plessy v. Ferguson, 163 U.S. 537 (1896)Smith v. Allwright, 321 U.S. 649 (1944)Boynton v. Virginia, 364 U.S. 454 (1960)Browder v. Gayle, 352 U.S. 903 (1956)Shelby County v. Holder, 570 U.S. 529 (2013)United States v. Price et al. 383 U.S. 787 (1966)