Lectures tagged "equal rights"

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Harriet Tubman: Bound for the Promised Land
Kate Clifford Larson
February 10, 2004
00:52:38
Historian Kate Clifford Larson discusses her new book, Bound for the Promised Land, which draws on a trove of new documents and sources as well as extensive genealogical research and reveals Harriet Tubman as a complex woman who was brilliant, shrewd, deeply religious, and passionate in her p
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Race, Sports, and Affirmative Action
Gerald L. Early
October 28, 2003
01:32:53
Gerald L. Early, Merle Kling professor of modern letters at Washington University in St. Louis, discusses his cultural observations on African American athletes.
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1963 March on Washington: "Blowin' in the Wind" Leaders and Lawmakers
Eugene Carson Blake
August 28, 1963
01:41:08
In 1963, WGBH 89.7 broadcast the entire event as part of the National Educational Radio Network, the precursor to NPR.
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1963 March on Washington: "Freedom" The Demands, The Pledge, The Prayer
Bayard Rustin
August 28, 1963
00:15:17
In 1963, WGBH 89.7 broadcast the entire event as part of the National Educational Radio Network, the precursor to NPR.
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John F. Kennedy: "Freedom Doctrine" Speech
John F. Kennedy
May 5, 1961
00:26:06
"I am here to promote the Freedom Doctrine. The great battleground for the defense and expansion of freedom today, is the whole southern half of the globe: Asia, Latin America, Africa and the Middle East, the lands of the rising people. Their revolution is the greatest in human history.