Sankofa Impact – Autherine Lucy
91.3 KBCS · 91.3KBCS 20230317 Autherine Lucy In 1956, Autherine Lucy, a Black student was expelled from University of Alabama within the first three days of starting a master’s program in Education. Lucy had enrolled at the school just after the Supreme Court case, Brown vs Board of Education deemed segregation of public schools illegal. It ...
Sankofa Impact – Jimmie Lee Jackson and the Fight for the Right to Vote
(This story originally aired in February of 2020.) During the 1960’s, Jimmie Lee Jackson tried registering to vote multiple times without success in Marion Alabama. These experiences activated him to take up the cause for the right to vote. His efforts, and finally his murder, led to a march which resulted in Bloody Sunday in Selma, ...
Sankofa Impact: Montgomery Bus Boycott
91.3 KBCS · 91.3KBCS 20220228 The 1950s Women – Led Montgomery Bus Boycott the Montgomery Bus Boycott was led by Black women of Montgomery after the court trial of four Montgomery women forced, on separate occasions, to give up their bus seat to a white passenger. This movement ended segregation on buses. KBCS video and audio Producer, ...
Sankofa Impact: Confederate Symbols
KBCS went to New Orleans with Project Pilgrimage participants in 2018 and learned about the movement to dismantle confederate monuments throughout the country. 91 3’s Ruthie Bly dives into the history of confederate symbols and what to do with a confederate legacy that just won’t concede defeat. Seattle’s Project Pilgrimage is a non-profit organization offering immersive ...
Sankofa Impact – Michael Quess? Moore: Confederate Symbols in the US South and in Washington State
91.3 KBCS · 91.3 KBCS 20201120 Take Em Down NOLA And WA Confederate Symbols Educator, Poet and Spokesperson for Take Em Down NOLA, Michael Quess? Moore spoke in Seattle in August of 2020 about Confederate Symbols, and why he advocates to take them down. Also, in this segment, Eleanor Chang-Stucki, Sankofa Impact Project Pilgrimage intern and student ...
Sankofa Impact – Civil Rights Foot Soldier, Silas McGhee
Silas McGhee was from a family of civil rights activists in Greenwood, Mississippi. In 1964, he worked to desegregate a movie theater. He was targeted for this work, and shot in the face by someone whom many believe was a local klansman. You can listen to the story of what happened to Silas the ...
Sankofa Impact – Medgar Evers
The NAACP’s first Mississippi field secretary, Medgar Evers was a civil rights leader who organized voter-registration efforts, economic boycotts, and investigated crimes perpetrated against blacks in the south. He was born on July 2nd 1925, and was assassinated at his home in Jackson Mississippi in1963. A group of participants from Project Pilgrimage listened to civil ...
Sankofa Impact: The Last Slave Ship to the United States
In May, the wreckage of the last slave ship to the United States was confirmed found off the shores of Mobile Alabama. Attorney, Justice, and Historian, Karlos Finley, explains the significance of the slaveship, Clotilda, for the descendants of those enslaved people transported here inside it in 1860. Finley also describes the remarkable community that ...
Sankofa Impact: 16th Street Baptist Church Bombing
On September 15th, 1963, the 16th Street Baptist Church was bombed by the Ku Klux Klan, killing four young girls. This bombing marked a turning point in the United States during the Civil Rights Movement, and contributed to support for passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Dr. Carolyn McKinstry was 15 years old ...
Sankofa Impact: Dr LaFayette- Equal Justice
90 years ago Tuesday January 15th 1929 Martin Luther King Jr. was born. At the age of 26 he became a key leader in the modern American Civil Rights Movement. He is well known for promoting non-violence. A way of life that Dr. Bernard LaFayette Jr., who worked with Dr. King, promotes to this day. While ...
Sankofa Impact: Dr. Bernard LaFayette on Nonviolence and Forgiveness
The signing of the U.S. Civil Rights Act act banned employment discrimination and outlawed segregation in businesses and public places. The fight for civil rights by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., and many others, was crucial to bringing about the act. Dr. Bernard LaFayette worked closely with Dr. King and carries on his legacy today with ...
Sankofa Impact: The Poor People’s Campaign
Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. organized the Poor People’s Campaign a month before his assassination 50 years ago. Bob Zellner is a civil rights activist and author who actively took part in the original campaign and is a leader in today’s nonviolent direct actions. KBCS’s Ruth Bly spoke with Zellner in April, 2018 about ...
Sankofa Impact: Dr. William Barber at the Selma, Bloody Sunday 50th Anniversary
Several political leaders and activists from the civil rights movement commemorated Bloody Sunday in Selma Alabama Sunday with a Jubilee and a march across the Edmond Pettis Bridge. Before the commemorative march across the bridge Rev. Dr. William Barber spoke about the state of civil rights today in front of Browns Chapel where the original ...