African-American Civil Rights Movement
You're Dead to Me. Josephine Baker. Audio, 50 minutes
Greg Jenner and the team take us to 1920s Paris to meet the phenomenal Josephine Baker.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
Great Lives. Andi Oliver on Nobel Prize-winning author Toni Morrison. Audio, 28 minutes
Andi Oliver chooses the Nobel Prize-winning author Toni Morrison
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
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- Posted19 January 2020
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- Posted30 December 2019
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- Posted28 October 2019
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- Posted27 September 2019
Witness History. Free breakfast with the Black Panthers. Audio, 9 minutes
The revolutionary Black Panther Party provided free breakfasts for local schoolchildren.
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- Available for over a year
- Attribution
- Posted11 September 2019
Witness History. Nina Simone moves to Liberia. Audio, 9 minutes
The great African-American jazz singer moved to West Africa in 1974.
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- Available for over a year
Witness History. The murder of black teenager Emmett Till. Audio, 9 minutes
In 1955, Emmett Till, a black teenager from Chicago, was brutally murdered in Mississippi
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Arts & Ideas. Proms Plus: Nina Simone's life and legacy. Audio, 34 minutes
Nina Simone’s achievement with Kevin Legendre, Ayanna Witter-Johnson and Zena Edwards
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- Available for over a year
Archive on 4. The British Black Panthers. Audio, 57 minutes
The untold story of when Black Power came to Britain and forever left its mark.
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- Available for over a year
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- Posted4 July 2019
Witness History. The assassinaton of Medgar Evers. Audio, 9 minutes
The American civil rights activist and war hero who was murdered in 1963 in Mississippi.
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
New Orleans food legend Leah Chase dies aged 96. Newsday. Audio, 00:04:33
She fed civil rights activists and redefined New Orleans cuisine
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Posted3 June 2019
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- Posted2 June 2019
Great Lives. Shirley Collins on Alan Lomax. Audio, 28 minutes
Shirley Collins and Billy Bragg on the legendary American song-hunter Alan Lomax.
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- Available for over a year
Arts & Ideas. Landmark: Audre Lorde. Audio, 53 minutes
Jackie Kay & Selina Thompson discuss the influential US writer & civil rights activist
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- Available for over a year
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- Posted16 April 2019
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- Posted12 March 2019
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- Posted25 November 2018
Witness History. Life With America's Black Panthers. Audio, 9 minutes
Memories of the radical African American leader, Eldridge Cleaver.
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- Available for over a year
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- Posted22 October 2018
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- Posted17 October 2018
