Leroy Reginald Johnson was an American politician who served in the Georgia State Senate from 1963 to 1975 after winning a seat in 1962. He was the first black state senator to be elected to the legislature in more than fifty years, since William Rogers in 1907, and the first to be elected to the Senate since 1874. He served District 38 in Fulton County and Atlanta. Before his term as senator, Johnson was an attorney where he played a role in Atlanta's civil rights movement of the 1960s. Including helping Muhammed Ali get back into the ring.

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The holidays are approaching and we decided to do a "behind-the-scenes" special episode to share with you. We'll be discussing and giving our thoughts on how the podcast, the guests, and the stories have changed our lives for the better. During this season of reflection and renewal, we take a few moments to look back on the first half of our first season, highlighting some of our favorite moments and to share what we have planned for the future. 

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As the Civil Rights Movement began to intensify, students all across the south staged lunch counter sit-ins. From Greensboro, North Carolina to Atlanta, Georgia lawyers aided them in their quest for justice. Professor Christopher Schmidt, author of The Sit-Ins: Protest and Legal Change in the Civil Rights Era captures this iconic moment from the perspective of a legal historian.

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Sit-ins became a prominent part of the civil rights movement in the early 1960s, with the most famous occurring in Greensboro, North Carolina. But as a form of protest, it was first used in 1939 by a lawyer named Samuel Wilbert Tucker. Libraries in Alexandria, Virginia refused to issue library cards to colored citizens and Mr. Tucker used a sit-in to mount a legal challenge to that practice. In early 1960, Franklin McCain was one of the four North Carolina A&T College students who staged a sit-in at the Woolworth's lunch counter in downtown Greensboro as a way to do something about the condition of segregation. Their efforts ultimately led to similar events across the south - in nine states and fifty-four cities. This episode features reflections by McCain on what it was like to be a part of The Greensboro Four and pays tribute to a hidden legal figure whose early twentieth-century insight gave a later generation the tool that would produce groundbreaking civil rights legislation. 

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Hidden Legal figures will be taking a short break this week in celebration of the Thanksgiving Holiday. But make sure you stay tuned next week for another great episode with Professor Christopher W. Schmidt of the Chicago-Kent College of Law. 

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The Montgomery Bus Boycott makes the nation come face-to-face with the rottenness of segregation and the Jim Crow south. For 380 days, black citizens of Montgomery, Alabama refused to ride the city buses. But it was a decision by the federal courts that gave them ultimate victory. Fred Grey, the lead attorney in the case Browder v. Gayle reflects on the legal efforts associated with the effort that launched Martin Luther King, Jr. to national prominence.

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The Montgomery Bus Boycott makes the nation come face-to-face with the rottenness of segregation and the Jim Crow south. For 380 days, black citizens of Montgomery, Alabama refused to ride the city buses. But it was a decision by the federal courts that gave them ultimate victory. Fred Grey, the lead attorney in the case Browder v. Gayle reflects on the legal efforts associated with the effort that launched Martin Luther King, Jr. to national prominence.

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Charles S. Johnson, III returns to talk about Brown 1 and the two arguments the lawyers made in the Supreme Court and how Brown 2 continues to shape the landscape of higher education.

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The case of Brown v. Board of Education is perhaps the best-known lawsuit from the civil rights era. But how it started – and what it really meant – remains a mystery to this day. Legal historian and attorney Charles S. Johnson, III breaks down the beginnings of the four cases that were part of the Brown decision and talks about all the lawyers who were involved in this historic decision.

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