African-American Civil Rights Movement
- Attribution
- Posted6 December
Short History Of... Rosa Parks. Audio, 57 minutes
A defiant act catapults Rosa Parks to the forefront of the battle for racial equality.
- AttributionBBC Sounds
- Available for over a year
- Attribution
- Posted3 December
- Attribution
- Posted16 November
- Attribution
- Posted4 November
You're Dead to Me. Frederick Douglass (Radio Edit) Audio, 28 minutes
Join Greg and his guests in 19th-Century America to meet Frederick Douglass.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
- Attribution
- Posted11 June
- Attribution
- Posted31 May
- Attribution
- Posted28 May
Short History Of... Martin Luther King Junior. Audio, 45 minutes
A pivotal figure in the Civil Rights Movement. What's Martin Luther King's legacy?
- AttributionBBC Sounds
- Available for over a year
Maya Angelou at the BBC. Video, 57 minutes
A look back through the archive at the extraordinary life of writer and poet Maya Angelou.
- AttributionBBC Four
- Available for 5 months
Witness History. Bonus: The Black 14. Audio, 33 minutes
The lives of 14 black American footballers are changed forever in a fight against racism
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
- Attribution
- Posted2 April
Outlook. The Playboy Bunny civil-rights activist who became Mrs Bond. Audio, 41 minutes
Gloria Hendry quit civil rights to be a Playboy Bunny — and the first black Mrs Bond
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
Outlook. The reluctant cop who sculpted away his sorrow. Audio, 41 minutes
A child of the civil rights era, Kevin became a policeman but longed to be an artist
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
Witness History. How Rosa Parks took a stand against racism. Audio, 9 minutes
Rosa Parks' refusal to give up her bus seat helped end segregation in the United States
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
Sunday Feature. Bayard Rustin: Activism and Early Music. Audio, 44 minutes
How the African American Civil Rights leader Bayard Rustin used Early Music in activism.
- AttributionBBC Radio 3
- Available for over a year
Short History Of... Muhammad Ali. Audio, 49 minutes
Muhammad Ali - the greatest boxer of all time?
- AttributionBBC Sounds
- Available for over a year
Arts & Ideas. Harry Belafonte. Audio, 45 minutes
The long career of the American singer, film star & activist with Matthew Sweet & guests
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
- Attribution
- Posted28 November 2023
- Attribution
- Posted28 August 2023
Heart and Soul. Dr Martin Luther King Jr: 60 years since ‘I have a dream’ Audio, 27 minutes
The legacy of one of the 20th Century's defining speeches
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
- Attribution
- Posted2 July 2023
Lives Less Ordinary. I was there the night Emmett Till was taken. Audio, 41 minutes
Wheeler Parker is Emmett Till's cousin and the last surviving witness to his abduction
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
