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It wasn't that way back when that black people had to move to the back of the bus. In this stirring collection, NPR says reports large and small: of Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King, and the March on Washington; of Pullman porters, a great green reserve, and women who baked pies to aid the Montgomery bus boycott. Personal recollections and historical accounts coloring vivid pictures of people and incidents that altered a nation. Items:
- "Intro" by Michele Norris
- "Rosa Parks"
- "The Golf club from Nowhere: Cooking for Civil Rights"
- "The Ignored Hero of the Civil Rights Activity"
- "The First Civil Rights Bus Boycott"
- "Before Rosa Parks, THERE IS Claudette Colvin"
- "Original Pullman Porter Subtly Confronted Racism"
- "'Green Reserve' Helped African People in the usa Travel Safely"
- "Jim Crow: Blacks Survived with Dignity"
- "The Power of Pictures in the Struggle for Civil Rights"
- "Emmett Right up until and the Impact of Images"
- "Mahalia Jackson: Tone of the Civil Rights Activity"
- "Wallace in the Schoolhouse Door"
- "Breaking the Color Barrier"
- "Audio Vault: The Civil Rights Take action"
- "Mississippi 1964: Civil Rights and Unrest"
- "Adam Farmer and the Liberty Summer"
- "Liberty Riders"
- "Rep. John Lewis on Prosecuting days gone by"
- "The Legacy of Medgar Evers"
- "Julian Connection Remembers"
- "Looking Back to Listen to Malcolm X"
- "Dorothy Height Sees Dream Come True"
- "Radio Record: March on Washington Recalled"
- "Remembering King and the 'Fierce Urgency of Now'"
- "Martin Luther King, 'At Canaan's Border'"
