Podcasts about civil rights revolution

1963 was a transformational year in American history—JFK's assassination, Martin Luther King Jr.'s “I Have a Dream” speech, the Birmingham Campaign, the rise of the Civil Rights Movement, and escalating Cold War tensions. It was a year that changed the soul of America.In this episode, Dr. Peniel Joseph, author and professor at the University of Texas at Austin, joins Ryan to discuss how 1963 ignited a decade of transformation. They discuss the pivotal events of the year, the contrasting strategies of Malcolm X and MLK Jr., and how this single year reshaped the course of future generations.Dr. Peniel E. Joseph is the Barbara Jordan Chair in Ethics and Political Values, founding director of the Center for the Study of Race and Democracy at the LBJ School of Public Affairs, and distinguished service leadership professor and professor of history at the University of Texas at Austin. He is the author and editor of eight award-winning books on African American history, including The Third Reconstruction and The Sword and the Shield. 

Malcolm X, John F. Kennedy, James Baldwin —1963 brought great minds together to work on the common goal of Civil Rights. Peniel Joseph is Barbara Jordan Chair in Political Values and Ethics at the LBJ School of Public Affairs and professor of history and founding director of the Center for the Study of Race and Democracy at the University of Texas at Austin. He joins host Krys Boyd to discuss how different political perspectives shaped a pivotal year in Civil Rights history and how violence woke the nation up to the urgent need for change. His book is “Freedom Season: How 1963 Transformed America's Civil Rights Revolution.” Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

For historian Peniel Joseph, the year 1963 — the centennial of the Emancipation Proclamation — is the defining year of the Civil Rights Movement. “America came undone and remade itself in 1963, a year of miracles and tragedies, progress and setbacks,” he writes in his new book, “Freedom Season.” It profiles how events of that year affected Americans like Rev. King, Malcolm X and James Baldwin — and inspired their parts in the Black freedom struggle. Joseph joins us. Tell us: What does 1963 symbolize to you? Guests: Peniel E. Joseph, author, "Freedom Season: How 1963 Transformed America's Civil Rights Revolution" - professor of history and founding director, Center for the Study of Race and Democracy, University of Texas at Austin Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

How did desegregation impact Black patients in America? What hasn't changed? What does racism in medicine look like today? And what should we do when we see it? To break it down, we spoke to Dr. Barbara Berney, project creator and producer of the documentary “Power to Heal: Medicare and the Civil Rights Revolution.” She's also an emeritus professor at City University of New York School of Public Health and a distinguished scholar in public health, environmental justice, and the U.S. healthcare system. This is the second of two episodes with Dr. Berney. Check out the Transcript and Show Notes for more!

This time on Code WACK!  How did desegregation impact Black patients in America? What hasn't changed? What does racism in medicine look like today? And what should we do when we see it?  To break it down, we spoke to Dr. Barbara Berney, project creator and producer of the documentary “Power to Heal: Medicare and the Civil Rights Revolution.” She's also an emeritus professor at City University of New York School of Public Health and a distinguished scholar in public health, environmental justice, and the U.S. healthcare system. This is the second of two episodes with Dr. Berney. Check out the Transcript and Show Notes for more!  Keep Code WACK! on the air with a tax-deductible donation at heal-ca.org/donate.

This time on Code WACK! How did desegregation impact Black patients in America? What hasn't changed? What does racism in medicine look like today? And what should we do when we see it? To break it down, we spoke to Dr. Barbara Berney, project creator and producer of the documentary “Power to Heal: Medicare and the Civil Rights Revolution.” She's also an emeritus professor at City University of New York School of Public Health and a distinguished scholar in public health, environmental justice, and the U.S. healthcare system. This is the second of two episodes with Dr. Berney. Keep Code WACK! on the air with a tax-deductible donation at heal-ca.org/donate

This time on HEAL California's Medicare for All podcast, Code WACK!, we're uncovering the shocking history of racial segregation in hospitals—and the fight to end it. What did segregation in health care really look like? Was it just a Southern problem, or were hospitals in the North just as complicit? And what finally forced hospitals to desegregate—despite years of resistance? Join us as we speak with Dr. Barbara Berney, public health scholar and producer of the documentary Power to Heal: Medicare and the Civil Rights Revolution, to explore the tragic consequences of hospital segregation—and how Medicare helped bring it to an end.

This time on Code WACK!  What did segregation look like in hospitals and medical facilities in America, and did it only extend to the South? What finally brought an end to the deadly practice that cost countless Black and Brown lives?  To break it down, we spoke to Dr. Barbara Berney, project creator and producer of the documentary “Power to Heal: Medicare and the Civil Rights Revolution.” She's also an emeritus professor at City University of New York School of Public Health and a distinguished scholar in public health, environmental justice, and the U.S. healthcare system. This is the first of two episodes with Dr. Berney. Check out the Transcript and Show Notes for more!

This time on Code WACK! What did segregation look like in hospitals and medical facilities in America, and did it only extend to the South? What finally brought an end to the deadly practice that cost countless Black and Brown lives? To break it down, we spoke to Dr. Barbara Berney, project creator and producer of the documentary “Power to Heal: Medicare and the Civil Rights Revolution.” She's also an emeritus professor at City University of New York School of Public Health and a distinguished scholar in public health, environmental justice, and the U.S. healthcare system. This is the first of two episodes with Dr. Berney. Check out the Transcript and Show Notes for more!

The 1866 civil rights law was historical not because it promised racial equality but because it changed the legal relationship between the states and the federal government.Original Article: The 1866 civil rights revolution

The 1866 civil rights law was historical not because it promised racial equality but because it changed the legal relationship between the states and the federal government.Original Article: The 1866 civil rights revolution

Conservatives complain about the extremes to which the civil rights revolution has been taken, but almost none of them dare to go to the root. In the traditional American conservative way, they eventually come to celebrate the very thing they once deplored, and then wonder why they keep losing. Jesse Merriam joins me to discuss the true ramifications of Brown vs. Board of Education. This is a discussion you cannot have in mainstream America today because you would be engaged in serious thought and constitutional analysis and the other side would be screaming slogans at you. But the conversation has to take place somewhere. Learn a Language:  

Is America on the road to Balkanization?Keith Alexander, co-host of The Political Cesspool, talks about how fast race relations have deteriorated since the Civil Rights Revolution of the 1960s.Learn more about racial tensions in America and why America is on the road to Balkanization in this installment of El Nino Speaks.Buy My Book "The 10 Myths of Gun Control" TodayIf you're serious about changing the gun control status quo we live in, this book is a must.After reading this text, you will be able to hold your own in any debate with your anti-gun friends, family, or associates. No questions asked.And heck, you will have a solid foundation in championing issues like gun rights should you take your activism to the next level.Knowledge is power and the foundation for any worthwhile endeavor. With this next-level information at your fingertips, the sky is the limit.So make today the day you say NO to the gun control status quo by taking action NOW.The full retail price for The 10 Myths of Gun Control is $6.Get Your Copy TodayBookmark my Website For Direct ContactIn the era of Big Tech censorship, we can't rely on just one or two platforms to keep us connected. Bookmark my website today so you always know where to get the true, unfiltered information about the news and views that matter to you.Subscribe to my Premium Newsletter TodayThe Niño FileIf you're serious about changing the authoritarian status quo we live in, make sure to join the Niño File on Patreon for as little as $5 a month. This is the premier source for dedicated and passionate leaders who want to not just “move the needle”, but actually win and change the landscape ahead of us.The Niño File is bringing you the necessary and concise ways to help you identify and train strong candidates, kill bad legislation while actively passing good bills, keeping incumbents accountable and knowing how to replace them when push comes to shove. Those are just the tip of the iceberg, the only way to get so much more is to join today!Don't Forget to Follow me on Twitter @JoseAlNino This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit josbcf.substack.com/subscribe

We are very pleased to sit down with American historian and cultural critic Elisabeth Lasch-Quinn to discuss her work on the history of race relations in America and the legacy of her father, the historian and critic Christopher Lasch. Christopher Lasch's thought has skyrocketed in popularity in recent years and one of the big questions that surrounds his work is how we understand his political vision and what the core of his critique of liberalism and American elites really amounts to. In this sneak-peak of an interview, we get a bit closer to answering this elusive question and we learn more about the real Lasch.  To listen to our full interview with Elisabeth Lasch-Quinn please become a member of our Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/posts/65598099). In addition to this clip on the legacy of Christopher Lasch, we also discuss her work Race Experts: How Racial Etiquette, Sensitivity Training, and New Age Therapy Hijacked the Civil Rights Revolution and her work Ars Vitae: On the Fate of Inwardness and the Return of the Ancient Arts of Living which talks about spirituality and new modes of living in our society.

Pulitzer-winning columnist and author, John Archibald, joins Ross and Clay to discuss his book, Shaking the Gates of Hell: A Search for Family and Truth in the Wake of the Civil Rights Revolution, white silence and how we can all use our pulpits and platforms to say more about racism and injustice.You can find John online at johnarchibaldink.com and on Twitter at @JohnArchibald. His book can be found wherever books are sold (we highly encourage you to read it) and his columns can be found pretty much everywhere in Alabama.

*Seasone One - Episode Four* Podcast number 4 features Pulitizer Prize writer and author John Archibald talking about pickup basketball games and his book "Shaking the Gates of Hell: A Search for Family and Truth in the Wake of the Civil Rights Revolution." John and i have collaborated for over 20 years. This podcast was a few days before the "City of Brookside" story broke. He told me he was working on something big... i didn't know he was going to takd a police department down. Eric Flowers is the engineer and the very first voice you hear on the podcasts. If you're interested in producing your own podcast, contact him at CM@creed63.com.

This week on Under the Radar: As we approach Martin Luther King Jr. Day, there's new evidence that the civil rights icon's life and the civil rights movement have been willfully misinterpreted. This is part of what's become a public battle over teaching the documented history of race in America. What is the impact of this campaign of disinformation on civil rights and race history in America? Guests: Jeanne Theoharris, distinguished professor of political science at Brooklyn College of the City University of New York. She has authored or co-authored eleven books, including the award-winning, “The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks.” Her latest book is, “A More Beautiful and Terrible History: The Uses and Misuses of Civil Rights History.” Diane McWhorter, 2002 Pulitzer Prizewinner for General Nonfiction for her book, “Carry Me Home, Birmingham Alabama, the Climatic Battle of the Civil Rights Revolution.” A long-time contributor to the New York Times, she is also the author of the 2004 children's book, “A Dream of Freedom: The Civil Rights Movement From 1954-1965,” a young adult history of the civil rights movement.

  John Archibald is a long-time reporter and columnist for The Birmingham News. In 2018, he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Commentary. Today we’ll be discussing his first book, Shaking the Gates of Hell: A Search for Family and Truth in the Wake of the Civil Rights Revolution, which is published by Knopf.   

In a live recording to celebrate the publication of John Archibald's new memoir "Shaking the Gates of Hell: A Search for Family and Truth in the Wake of the Civil Rights Revolution," we chat with Archibald, RL Nave and Dr. Wayne Flynt about the history of silence and complicity in the Southern church. Archibald's memoir asks the question: "What good is a pulpit if you don't use it for good?" The event was co-sponsored by Books-A-Million. Buy John Archibald's memoir here: https://bit.ly/3nisl53Sign up for The Conversation, our weekly newsletter: https://bit.ly/3dzfbfh See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Pulitzer Prize winning writer John Archibald joins the podcast parlor to chat about his new book, "Shaking the Gates of Hell: A Search for Family and Truth in the Wake of Civil Rights Revolution,” which was published by Alfred A. Knopf in 2021. In 2018, John won the Pulitzer Prize for his commentary on politics in the state of Alabama and, in 2020, was awarded a Nieman Foundation Fellowship to study the future of digital media at Harvard University. For more information on The Big Rhetorical Podcast visit thebigrhetoricalpodcast.weebly.com or follow us on Twitter and Facebook @thebigrhet.

This week, Liberty and Vanessa discuss How Beautiful We Were, Women and Other Monsters, The Ghost Variations, and more great books. Pick up an All the Books! shirt, sticker, and more right here. Subscribe to All the Books! using RSS, iTunes, or Spotify and never miss a book. Sign up for the weekly New Books! newsletter for even more new book news. This post contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, Book Riot may earn a commission. BOOKS DISCUSSED ON THE SHOW: We Shall Sing a Song into the Deep by Andrew Kelly Stewart Act Your Age, Eve Brown by Talia Hibbert How Beautiful We Were by Imbolo Mbue  Women and Other Monsters: Building a New Mythology by Jess Zimmerman  The Ghost Variations: One Hundred Stories by Kevin Brockmeier Decoding Despacito: An Oral History of Latin Music by Leila Cobo Gory Details: Adventures From the Dark Side of Science by Erika Engelhaupt  Once Upon a Quinceañera by Monica Gomez-Hira WHAT WE’RE READING: A Thousand Ships by Natalie Haynes Under the Whispering Door by TJ Klune MORE BOOKS OUT THIS WEEK: Last Call: A True Story of Love, Lust, and Murder in Queer New York by Elon Green Fragile Remedy by Maria Ingrande Mora Fatal Fried Rice: A Noodle Shop Mystery by Vivien Chien  Her Here by Amanda Dennis The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race Walter Isaacson  Children of Chicago by Cynthia Pelayo My Old Home: A Novel of Exile by Orville Schell  The Impudent Ones by Marguerite Duras, Kelsey L. Haskett (Translator) I Had a Miscarriage: A Memoir, a Movement by Jessica Zucker  The Darkest Glare: A True Story of Murder, Blackmail, and Real Estate Greed in 1979 Los Angeles by Chip Jacobs The Plum Trees by Victoria Shorr Off the Wild Coast of Brittany by Juliet Blackwell  Search for Her by Rick Mofina Black Girl, Call Home by Jasmine Mans  Hungry Hearts: Essays on Courage, Desire, and Belonging by Jennifer Rudolph Walsh Bedside Matters by Richard Alther The Ultimate Evil: The Search for the Sons of Sam by Maury Terry The Western Front: A History of the Great War, 1914-1918 by Nick Lloyd All the Murmuring Bones by A.G. Slatter Surviving Savannah by Patti Callahan Life’s Edge: The Search for What It Means to Be Alive by Carl Zimmer Who Will Pay Reparations on My Soul?: Essays by Jesse McCarthy The Arsonists’ City by Hala Alyan Things That Grow by Meredith Goldstein Her Dark Lies by J.T. Ellison Edie Richter is Not Alone by Rebecca Handler Tethered to Stars: Poems by Fady Joudah The Recent East by Thomas Grattan The Second Bell by Gabriela Houston Wonderworks: The 25 Most Powerful Inventions in the History of Literature by Angus Fletcher American Betiya by Anuradha D. Rajurkar The Seed Keeper by Diane Wilson Demos: An American Multitude by Benjamín Naka-Hasebe Kingsley The Bone Maker by Sarah Beth Durst The Phone Booth at the Edge of the World by Laura Imai Messina Beloved Beasts: Fighting for Life in an Age of Extinction by Michelle Nijhuis The Rose Code by Kate Quinn The Salt Fields by Stacy D. Flood Tono Monogatari by Shigeru Mizuki, Zack Davisson (translator) Abby, Tried and True by Donna Gephart The Hospital: Life, Death, and Dollars in a Small American Town by Brian Alexander Northern Light:  Power, Land, and the Memory of Water by Kazim Ali Sweet & Bitter Magic by Adrienne Tooley New Yorkers: A City and Its People in Our Time by Craig Taylor Cloudmaker by Malcolm Brooks When We Were Infinite by Kelly Loy Gilbert Amber and Clay by Laura Amy Schlitz, Julia Iredale Love Like That: Stories by Emma Duffy-Comparone The Girls Are All So Nice Here by Laurie Elizabeth Flynn My Heart by Semezdin Mehmedinovic, Celia Hawkesworth Model Citizen: A Memoir by Joshua Mohr The Fourth Child by Jessica Winter Maniac: The Bath School Disaster and the Birth of the Modern Mass Killer by Harold Schechter  Perfect on Paper by Sophie Gonzales Starfish by Lisa Fipps A Rogue to Remember (League of Scoundrels) by Emily Sullivan Brood by Jackie Polzin Say Your Word, Then Leave: The Assassination of Jamal Khashoggi and the Power of the Truth by Karen Attiah Cosmogony: Stories by Lucy Ives A Fatal Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum: Murder in Ancient Rome by Emma Southon Tell Me My Name by Amy Reed Dear Black Girl: Letters From Your Sisters on Stepping Into Your Power by Tamara Winfrey Harris The Wild Huntsboys by Martin Stewart Sarahland by Sam Cohen Absentees: On Variously Missing Persons by Daniel Heller-Roazen  The Windsor Knot by SJ Bennett  Can’t Take That Away by Steven Salvatore  Sing Me Forgotten by Jessica S. Olson Martian Ghost Centaur by Mat Heagerty, Steph Mided Light Chaser by Peter F. Hamilton and Gareth L. Powell  The Disordered Cosmos: A Journey into Dark Matter, Spacetime, and Dreams Deferred by Chanda Prescod-Weinstein  It’s Kind of a Cheesy Love Story by Lauren Morrill Shaking the Gates of Hell: A Search for Family and Truth in the Wake of the Civil Rights Revolution by John Archibald Ravage the Dark by Tara Sim Acts of Desperation by Megan Nolan Reality and Other Stories: And Other Stories by John Lanchester Midnight in Cairo: The Divas of Egypt’s Roaring 20s by Raphael Cormack Olive by Emma Gannon  Double Plays and Double Crosses: The Black Sox and Baseball in 1920 by Don Zminda In Search of Mycotopia : Citizen Science, Fungi Fanatics, and the Untapped Potential of Mushrooms by Doug Bierend See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The astonishing story of Alethia Browning Tanner, enslaved grocer to the Presidents, whose family kicked off revolutions in education and civil rights. Support the show (https://www.facebook.com/LafayetteSquareTourOfScandalAssassinationIntrigue/)

This is episode 39, “How Medicare Integrated Hospitals.” It is a special episode to celebrate the 55th anniversary of the passage of Medicare on July 30, 1965. My guest, Dr. Barbara Berney, MPH, PhD, produced the documentary, “Power to Heal: Medicare and the Civil Rights Revolution.” The film describes how the creation of Medicare was used to desegregate thousands of hospitals in a few months.  Her diverse experience in public health includes working as a frontline health worker in Watts for the Los Angeles County Health Department, as a policy analyst with the United Mine Workers Health and Retirement Funds and with the federal government. Dr. Berney is a distinguished scholar in public health, environmental justice, and the U.S. health care system. She is Emeritus Associate Professor at the City University of New York School of Public Health, and holds an MPH in Health Administration from UCLA and a PhD in Public Policy from Boston University where she was a Pew Scholar.  Do not miss this episode as Dr. Berney discusses how Medicare was used to integrate hospitals and the lessons that provides for today.  Note, information about the “Power to Heal: Medicare and the Civil Rights Revolution” can be found at here, and you can purchase the film here.   

In this episode of Organic Thoughts hosts Machi and Troy discuss censorship, Black lives matter movement (today’s Civil Rights Revolution), the perpetuation of racism, and the importance to access information and voting, as well as the generation trapped between millennials and generation z. Tune in now! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

This week on “The Learning Curve,” Cara and Gerard mark the Juneteenth commemoration of the end of slavery with an episode devoted to Civil Rights history. They are joined by Diane McWhorter, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Carry Me Home: Birmingham, Alabama: The Climactic Battle of the Civil Rights Revolution. They explore the parallels between the current civil unrest and racial injustice... Source

Jesse has a bad cough. Is it coronavirus, or just Jewishness? Katie, meanwhile, isn't quite sure what plant she turned into tea last week. Will either cohost outlive April? We'll see soon enough. In the meantime, the hosts debate whether coronavirus will kill the online culture wars, then segue accidentally into a discussion of gender identity and the complicated ways in which attempts to reduce misgendering can lead, as Katie has experienced, to yet more misgendering. Then Jesse complains about the Twitter cops who came at Jill Filipovic for her perfectly accurate tweet about the Spanish Legion (being hot), and both cohosts struggle to wrap their minds around the phenomenon of nice white ladies paying Sairo Rao and Regina Jackson to come to dinner at their houses and call them racist. Show notes: -How This Nonbinary Woman Created the Queerest Cartoon on Television (https://www.them.us/story/rebecca-sugar-steven-universe-interview) (them) -Rebecca Sugar Opens Up About Being Non-binary (https://www.pride.com/comingout/2018/7/18/rebecca-sugar-opens-about-being-non-binary) (Pride) -"They" Is a Fine Pronoun, But It Ain't Mine (https://www.thestranger.com/slog/2018/09/06/31903785/they-is-a-fine-pronoun-but-it-aint-mine/) (The Stranger) -ContraPoints and the Scandal That Shouldn’t Be (https://arcdigital.media/contrapoints-and-the-scandal-that-shouldnt-be-15ac97f330d4) (Arc Digital) -Jill Filipovic on the Spanish Legion (https://twitter.com/JillFilipovic/status/1241857598778900481) (Twitter) -Zoé Samudzi on (God help us) Jill Filipovic on the Spanish Legion (https://twitter.com/ztsamudzi/status/1242099153435582471) (Twitter) -Why liberal white women pay a lot of money to learn over dinner how they're racist (https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/feb/03/race-to-dinner-party-racism-women) (The Guardian) -White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin DiAngelo (https://www.amazon.com/White-Fragility-People-About-Racism/dp/0807047414) (Amazon) -Race Experts: How Racial Etiquette, Sensitivity Training, and New Age Therapy Hijacked the Civil Rights Revolution (https://www.amazon.com/Race-Experts-Etiquette-Sensitivity-Revolution-dp-039304873X/dp/039304873X/ref=mt_hardcover?_encoding=UTF8&me=&qid=) by Elisabeth Lasch-Quinn (Amazon)

Today on Flashpoints: Power To Heal: Medicare and The Civil Rights Revolution. We'll features excerpts from this powerful documentary, narrated by Danny Glover. The post Excerpts from “Power To Heal: Medicare And The Civil Rights Revolution” appeared first on KPFA.

Professor Holly Brewer of the University of Maryland, Dean Risa Goluboff of the University of Virginia School of Law, and Professor Lea VanderVelde of the University of Iowa College of Law detail the battle over race and equality across American history, from the Founding to Reconstruction to the Civil Rights Revolution. NCC president Jeffrey Rosen moderates. This program was presented in partnership with the Guggenheim Foundation. Questions or comments about the podcast? Email us at podcast@constitutioncenter.org.

On today's episode of Loud & Clear, Brian Becker is joined by Ruth Beltran, a member of Black Lives Matter - Sarasota; by Eugene Puryear, the host of Radio Sputnik’s By Any Means Necessary; and by Bob Schlehuber, a Sputnik News analyst and producer of that program.President Trump has moved forward on campaign promises to launch a law-and-order crackdown, signing executive orders last week to create special task forces. Does this mean an even more advanced police state is in the making? What does it mean for the movement against police brutality and for the African-American community? Is this the institutionalizing of the slogan “Blue Lives Matter”?

Dan Fetter reads from Sharing the Prize: The Economics of the Civil Rights Revolution in the American South by Gavin Wright, published by Belknap Press. "Why did white southerners defend so passionately and for so long an inefficient system that evidently failed to serve their own best economic interests?"

Americans rightly think of the civil rights legislation of 1964 and ’65 as a social and legal revolution. InSharing the Prize: The Economics of the Civil Rights Revolution in the American South (Harvard University Press, 2013),Gavin Wright argues that it was an economic one, too. In clear and tightly organized prose, the eminent Stanford economic historianshows that after these pivotal years blacks in the South made record gains, “relative to earlier levels, relative to southern whites, and relative to national standards.”This progress was not simply a byproduct of the region’s general boom, as some have argued. Business gave no indication that it was inching toward integration, another instance of blind self-interest. Civil rights activists deserve the credit. But, ironically, the end of Jim Crow proved enormously beneficial to the whites who had so long opposed it.Although the situation began to change in the 1980’s, the civil rights revolution in the South was responsible for almost two-thirds of the reduction in poverty between then and 1965, the largest drop in U.S. history. Certain to become a classic in the literature, the book is a fascinating look at a period deserving of even more awe than it has inspired. A fitting and cautionary tribute fifty years later. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Bruce Ackerman is the Sterling Professor of Law and Political Science at Yale University. His book, We the People, Volume 3: The Civil Rights Revolution (Harvard UP, 2013) fills out the constitutional history of America's “Second Reconstruction” period and makes a powerful argument that traditional understandings of the constitutional canon must be expanded to accurately reflect the American lawmaking process. The official constitutional canon is composed of the 1787 Constitution and the formal amendments to this document. However, Ackerman argues that the Supreme Court should give more deference to an operational canon that includes the landmark statutes, which are the legacy of the civil rights revolution. Ackerman reveals that the leaders of the civil rights movement actively avoided altering the Constitution through an Article V amendment because this method had failed during the first Reconstruction period. Instead, he lays out how they relied on constitution-altering techniques established during the New Deal. The champions of the civil rights movement following these New Deal methods emerged victorious from robust constitutional debates in all three branches. These successes reveal the American people's broad support for a change to the constitutional status quo, a level of consent much greater than that behind the Reconstruction that produced three Article V amendments and Ackerman asserts even greater than the support underpinning the American Revolution. Ackerman's position as a scholar of both law and political science allows him to avoid interpretative pitfalls common to each respective discipline and to use his greater breadth of knowledge to present a wide picture of the civil rights era's political history. His interdisciplinary interpretation argues for an even greater respect for Brown v. Board of Education's importance in the movement while simultaneously arguing that lawyers must move away from a court-centric view of the period to be faithful to the collective voice of We the People. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/african-american-studies

Bruce Ackerman is the Sterling Professor of Law and Political Science at Yale University. His book, We the People, Volume 3: The Civil Rights Revolution (Harvard UP, 2013) fills out the constitutional history of America’s “Second Reconstruction” period and makes a powerful argument that traditional understandings of the constitutional canon must be expanded to accurately reflect the American lawmaking process. The official constitutional canon is composed of the 1787 Constitution and the formal amendments to this document. However, Ackerman argues that the Supreme Court should give more deference to an operational canon that includes the landmark statutes, which are the legacy of the civil rights revolution. Ackerman reveals that the leaders of the civil rights movement actively avoided altering the Constitution through an Article V amendment because this method had failed during the first Reconstruction period. Instead, he lays out how they relied on constitution-altering techniques established during the New Deal. The champions of the civil rights movement following these New Deal methods emerged victorious from robust constitutional debates in all three branches. These successes reveal the American people’s broad support for a change to the constitutional status quo, a level of consent much greater than that behind the Reconstruction that produced three Article V amendments and Ackerman asserts even greater than the support underpinning the American Revolution. Ackerman’s position as a scholar of both law and political science allows him to avoid interpretative pitfalls common to each respective discipline and to use his greater breadth of knowledge to present a wide picture of the civil rights era’s political history. His interdisciplinary interpretation argues for an even greater respect for Brown v. Board of Education’s importance in the movement while simultaneously arguing that lawyers must move away from a court-centric view of the period to be faithful to the collective voice of We the People. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Bruce Ackerman is the Sterling Professor of Law and Political Science at Yale University. His book, We the People, Volume 3: The Civil Rights Revolution (Harvard UP, 2013) fills out the constitutional history of America’s “Second Reconstruction” period and makes a powerful argument that traditional understandings of the constitutional canon must be expanded to accurately reflect the American lawmaking process. The official constitutional canon is composed of the 1787 Constitution and the formal amendments to this document. However, Ackerman argues that the Supreme Court should give more deference to an operational canon that includes the landmark statutes, which are the legacy of the civil rights revolution. Ackerman reveals that the leaders of the civil rights movement actively avoided altering the Constitution through an Article V amendment because this method had failed during the first Reconstruction period. Instead, he lays out how they relied on constitution-altering techniques established during the New Deal. The champions of the civil rights movement following these New Deal methods emerged victorious from robust constitutional debates in all three branches. These successes reveal the American people’s broad support for a change to the constitutional status quo, a level of consent much greater than that behind the Reconstruction that produced three Article V amendments and Ackerman asserts even greater than the support underpinning the American Revolution. Ackerman’s position as a scholar of both law and political science allows him to avoid interpretative pitfalls common to each respective discipline and to use his greater breadth of knowledge to present a wide picture of the civil rights era’s political history. His interdisciplinary interpretation argues for an even greater respect for Brown v. Board of Education’s importance in the movement while simultaneously arguing that lawyers must move away from a court-centric view of the period to be faithful to the collective voice of We the People. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Bruce Ackerman is the Sterling Professor of Law and Political Science at Yale University. His book, We the People, Volume 3: The Civil Rights Revolution (Harvard UP, 2013) fills out the constitutional history of America’s “Second Reconstruction” period and makes a powerful argument that traditional understandings of the constitutional canon must be expanded to accurately reflect the American lawmaking process. The official constitutional canon is composed of the 1787 Constitution and the formal amendments to this document. However, Ackerman argues that the Supreme Court should give more deference to an operational canon that includes the landmark statutes, which are the legacy of the civil rights revolution. Ackerman reveals that the leaders of the civil rights movement actively avoided altering the Constitution through an Article V amendment because this method had failed during the first Reconstruction period. Instead, he lays out how they relied on constitution-altering techniques established during the New Deal. The champions of the civil rights movement following these New Deal methods emerged victorious from robust constitutional debates in all three branches. These successes reveal the American people’s broad support for a change to the constitutional status quo, a level of consent much greater than that behind the Reconstruction that produced three Article V amendments and Ackerman asserts even greater than the support underpinning the American Revolution. Ackerman’s position as a scholar of both law and political science allows him to avoid interpretative pitfalls common to each respective discipline and to use his greater breadth of knowledge to present a wide picture of the civil rights era’s political history. His interdisciplinary interpretation argues for an even greater respect for Brown v. Board of Education’s importance in the movement while simultaneously arguing that lawyers must move away from a court-centric view of the period to be faithful to the collective voice of We the People. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Bruce Ackerman is the Sterling Professor of Law and Political Science at Yale University. His book, We the People, Volume 3: The Civil Rights Revolution (Harvard UP, 2013) fills out the constitutional history of America’s “Second Reconstruction” period and makes a powerful argument that traditional understandings of the constitutional canon must be expanded to accurately reflect the American lawmaking process. The official constitutional canon is composed of the 1787 Constitution and the formal amendments to this document. However, Ackerman argues that the Supreme Court should give more deference to an operational canon that includes the landmark statutes, which are the legacy of the civil rights revolution. Ackerman reveals that the leaders of the civil rights movement actively avoided altering the Constitution through an Article V amendment because this method had failed during the first Reconstruction period. Instead, he lays out how they relied on constitution-altering techniques established during the New Deal. The champions of the civil rights movement following these New Deal methods emerged victorious from robust constitutional debates in all three branches. These successes reveal the American people’s broad support for a change to the constitutional status quo, a level of consent much greater than that behind the Reconstruction that produced three Article V amendments and Ackerman asserts even greater than the support underpinning the American Revolution. Ackerman’s position as a scholar of both law and political science allows him to avoid interpretative pitfalls common to each respective discipline and to use his greater breadth of knowledge to present a wide picture of the civil rights era’s political history. His interdisciplinary interpretation argues for an even greater respect for Brown v. Board of Education’s importance in the movement while simultaneously arguing that lawyers must move away from a court-centric view of the period to be faithful to the collective voice of We the People. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Bruce Ackerman is the Sterling Professor of Law and Political Science at Yale University. His book, We the People, Volume 3: The Civil Rights Revolution (Harvard UP, 2013) fills out the constitutional history of America’s “Second Reconstruction” period and makes a powerful argument that traditional understandings of the constitutional canon must be expanded to accurately reflect the American lawmaking process. The official constitutional canon is composed of the 1787 Constitution and the formal amendments to this document. However, Ackerman argues that the Supreme Court should give more deference to an operational canon that includes the landmark statutes, which are the legacy of the civil rights revolution. Ackerman reveals that the leaders of the civil rights movement actively avoided altering the Constitution through an Article V amendment because this method had failed during the first Reconstruction period. Instead, he lays out how they relied on constitution-altering techniques established during the New Deal. The champions of the civil rights movement following these New Deal methods emerged victorious from robust constitutional debates in all three branches. These successes reveal the American people’s broad support for a change to the constitutional status quo, a level of consent much greater than that behind the Reconstruction that produced three Article V amendments and Ackerman asserts even greater than the support underpinning the American Revolution. Ackerman’s position as a scholar of both law and political science allows him to avoid interpretative pitfalls common to each respective discipline and to use his greater breadth of knowledge to present a wide picture of the civil rights era’s political history. His interdisciplinary interpretation argues for an even greater respect for Brown v. Board of Education’s importance in the movement while simultaneously arguing that lawyers must move away from a court-centric view of the period to be faithful to the collective voice of We the People. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices