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.

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The U.S. Civil Rights Trail podcast series is produced by Ingredient with Tanner Latham as Executive Producer. 

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: 

The episode features the voices and perspectives of: 

The U.S. Civil Rights Trail podcast series is produced by Ingredient with Tanner Latham as Executive Producer. 

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. 

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The U.S. Civil Rights Trail podcast series is produced by Ingredient with Tanner Latham as Executive Producer. 

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.

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The U.S. Civil Rights Trail podcast series is produced by Ingredient with Tanner Latham as Executive Producer. 

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.  

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The U.S. Civil Rights Trail podcast series is produced by Ingredient with Tanner Latham as Executive Producer. 

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:

The episode features the voices and perspectives of:

The U.S. Civil Rights Trail podcast series is produced by Ingredient with Tanner Latham as Executive Producer. 

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. 

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The U.S. Civil Rights Trail podcast series is produced by Ingredient with Tanner Latham as Executive Producer. 

In this episode, “Meeting Places, Organizing Protests & Confrontations, pt. 2,” historians and experts help explain the role of the civil rights movement in Louisiana’s rural towns such as Plaquemine, Jonesboro and Bogalusa. You’ll hear the heroic stories of the Deacons of the Defense and learn about the influential 105-Mile March from Bogalusa all the way to the capitol steps in Baton Rouge. 

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The U.S. Civil Rights Trail podcast series is produced by Ingredient with Tanner Latham as Executive Producer. 

In this episode, “Meeting Places, Organizing Protests & Confrontations, pt. 1,” historians and experts help explain the growth of the non-violent protests that helped desegregate Louisiana. You’ll hear the story of the nation’s first bus boycott in Baton Rouge. And you’ll learn about the student-organized sit-ins and protests in New Orleans, Shreveport and Baton Rouge. 

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The U.S. Civil Rights Trail podcast series is produced by Ingredient with Tanner Latham as Executive Producer. 

In this episode, “Desegregation,” historians and experts help explain some of the most pioneering moments in desegregation in the state of Louisiana. You’ll learn about the key role that the 761st Tank Battalion at Camp Beauregard played during World War II. You’ll hear the story how a coach fought to integrate the basketball team at what is now known as the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. And you’ll get the first-person perspective from one of the young students who helped to integrate New Orleans public schools. 

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The U.S. Civil Rights Trail podcast series is produced by Ingredient with Tanner Latham as Executive Producer.