This is the North Carolina Civil Rights Trail podcast. A series where historians and experts help us explore significant events in African American history that happened in the state. This is the third and final episode, where we take you to protests and movements across the state inspired and energized by the Greensboro Four sit-in in places such as Elizabeth City, Kinston, High Point, Salisbury, Shelby and Warren County. We also tell the story of Ella Baker and how she founded SNCC on the campus of Shaw University in Raleigh. 

Learn more about the sites on the North Carolina Civil Rights Trail by visiting: 

• VisitNC.com/Civil-Rights
• North Carolina African American Heritage Commission
• CivilRightsTrail.com

The episode features the voices and perspectives of: 

• Glen Bowman, History Professor, Elizabeth City State University
• Adriane Lentz-Smith, History Professor, Duke University
• Bill Kearney, University of North Carolina Outreach Manager
• Keri Peterson, Sr. Director of History and Exhibitions, Levine Museum of the New South

This is the North Carolina Civil Rights Trail podcast. A series where historians and experts help us explore significant events in African American history that happened in the state. This is the second of three episodes. And in it, we’re going to learn about how four young men protesting at a department store lunch counter in Greensboro, NC, influenced generations.

Learn more about the sites on the North Carolina Civil Rights Trail by visiting: 

• VisitNC.com/Civil-Rights
• North Carolina African American Heritage Commission
• CivilRightsTrail.com

The episode features the voices and perspectives of: 

• Cassandra Williams, Tour Guide, International Civil Rights Center and Museum
• Torren Gatson, Asst. Professor of History, UNC-Greensboro
• Robert "Pat" Patterson, Sr., former student at NC A&T
• Charles Bess, former busboy at Woolworths in Greensboro
• Roslyn Smith, former Bennett College student
• Yvonne Johnson, former Bennett College student

This is the North Carolina Civil Rights Trail podcast. A series where historians and experts help us explore significant events in African American history that happened in the state. This is the first of three episodes. And in it, we’ll tell the story of the events leading up to the famous A&T Four sit-ins in Greensboro in 1960, including the story of Dorothy Counts and her attempt to integrate a public high school in Charlotte. 

Learn more about the sites on the North Carolina Civil Rights Trail by visiting: 

• VisitNC.com/Civil-Rights
• North Carolina African American Heritage Commission
• CivilRightsTrail.com

The episode features the voices and perspectives of: 

• Dorothy Counts-Scoggins
• Will Harris, Principal Scholar, International Civil Rights Center and Museum
• Keri Peterson, Sr. Director of History and Exhibitions, Levine Museum of the New South
• Cassandra Williams, Tour Guide, International Civil Rights Center and Museum
• Yvonne Johnson, Bennett College student from 1960-1964
• Torren Gatson, Asst. Professor of History, UNC-Greensboro

The North Carolina Civil Rights Trail podcast is a series where historians and experts help us explore significant events in African American history that happened in the state. It features well-known events from larger cities like Charlotte, Greensboro and Raleigh. It also tells stories of how everyday citizens joined together to make change in their communities such as Chapel Hill, Kinston, Monroe and Elizabeth City among others. It’s a podcast that helps us understand why what people did in North Carolina then is still so relevant today. 

Learn more about the sites on the North Carolina Civil Rights Trail by visiting: 

• VisitNC.com/Civil-Rights
• North Carolina African American Heritage Commission
• CivilRightsTrail.com

This episode takes us to the town of Clinton in the eastern part of the state. Following the pivotal U.S. Supreme Court ruling in Brown v. Board of Education, a judge ordered the desegregation of Clinton High School. On August 26, 1956, a group of African American students – the Clinton 12 – attended their first day of class, marking the first integration of a public high school in the South. What began as a seemingly peaceful transition quickly evolved into a threatening uproar. We follow a few of the stories of the Clinton 12, including Bobby Cain, who on May 17, 1957, became the first African American student to graduate from an integrated public high school in the South.

Learn more about the sites on the Tennessee Civil Rights Trail by visiting:

• TNCivilRightsTrail.com
• CivilRightsTrail.com

The episode features the voices and perspectives of:

• Adam Velk, Director of the Green McAdoo Cultural Center 
• Bobby Cain, one of the Clinton 12 students 
• Jo Ann Boyce, one of the Clinton 12 students

The Tennessee Civil Rights Trail podcast explores the most significant aspects of the Movement in the state. This episode takes a look at the integral role college students played in the city (from Fisk University, American Baptist College, Tennessee State University and elsewhere) especially as they participated in significant protests, such as the Feb. 1960 sit-in at the F.W. Woolworth building and separately at the April 1960 Davidson County courthouse to protest a bombing at a Civil Rights attorney’s home. Finally, as a nod to the National Museum of African American Music, the episode concludes by exploring how influential African American music was during the 1950s and 1960s.  

Learn more about the sites on the Tennessee Civil Rights Trail by visiting:

• TNCivilRightsTrail.com
• CivilRightsTrail.com

The episode features the voices and perspectives of:

• Crystal deGregory, a research fellow at Middle Tennessee State University’s Center for Historic Preservation
• Katie Rainge-Briggs, manager of exhibitions and collections at the National Museum of African American Music in Nashville
• Bernard LaFayette, former American Baptist College student

The Tennessee Civil Rights Trail podcast explores the most significant aspects of the Movement in the state. This episode offers a sketch of the city’s overall history before bringing us into what it was like there in the 1950s and 1960s. We learn about the city’s Sanitation Workers’ Strike in 1968, the cause that compelled Martin Luther King, Jr. to visit there that spring to offer his support. The episode details the moments leading up to King’s assassination in Memphis on April 4th that year as well as the effect it caused nationally. Episode 1 concludes with the role that music and the radio played in the Movement by telling the stories of Stax Records and WDIA, one of the first radio stations in the country programmed entirely for the Black community. 

Learn more about the sites on the Tennessee Civil Rights Trail by visiting:

• TNCivilRightsTrail.com
• CivilRightsTrail.com

The episode features the voices and perspectives of:

• Ryan Jones, museum educator for the National Civil Rights Museum
• Elaine Lee Turner, Movement veteran and Civil Rights tour guide
• Al Bell, former executive at Stax Records
• Mark Stansbury, DJ and news reporter at WDIA

The Tennessee Civil Rights Trail podcast explores the most significant aspects of the Movement in the state. The episodes will take you from the cities of Memphis and Nashville to the town of Clinton. And they will feature the voices of veteran foot soldiers who stood strong against oppression. You’ll also hear from historians and experts who explain the full context of what was happening and help us understand why what took place then is still so relevant today. 

Learn more about the sites on the Tennessee Civil Rights Trail by visiting:

• TNCivilRightsTrail.com 
• CivilRightsTrail.com