EPISODE · Apr 5, 2026 · 49 MIN
Civil Rights, Camelot, and the Shadow of Vietnam
from APUSH for All · host Zach Garrison, Riley Keltner, and Mike Hill
In this episode, we explore the deep contradictions of postwar America: a nation celebrating prosperity, suburbia, and Cold War power while millions of African Americans were still denied basic rights and full access to the American dream. We trace the long roots of the civil rights movement through Reconstruction, Jim Crow, the NAACP, the Great Migration, and the Double V campaign, then move into Brown, Emmett Till, Little Rock, Montgomery, Kennedy’s New Frontier, Johnson’s Great Society, and the rising shadow of Vietnam. It is a story of expanding hopes, exposed hypocrisy, and a nation pulled between justice and fear abroad.
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In this episode, we explore the deep contradictions of postwar America: a nation celebrating prosperity, suburbia, and Cold War power while millions of African Americans were still denied basic rights and full access to the American dream. We trace the long roots of the civil rights movement through Reconstruction, Jim Crow, the NAACP, the Great Migration, and the Double V campaign, then move into Brown, Emmett Till, Little Rock, Montgomery, Kennedy’s New Frontier, Johnson’s Great Society, and the rising shadow of Vietnam. It is a story of expanding hopes, exposed hypocrisy, and a nation pulled between justice and fear abroad.
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