Civil Rights Activists

Episode Number
51
Program Date
  • Author Ben Green

    Ben Green, Author of Before His Time and the Untold Story of Harry T. Moore

  • Bill Gary

    Bill Gary, Harry T. and Harriette V. Moore Cultural Complex

  • Jim McNalis

    Jim McNalis, Sculptor and Artist

  • Statue, Mable Norris Reese

    Statue, Mable Norris Reese

  • Mable Norris Reese

    Mable Norris Reese, journalist

  • Sheriff Willis McCall

    Sheriff Willis McCall, Groveland Boys

  • Burning Cross

    Burning Cross, Ku Klux Klan

  • News Article, Mabel Norris Reese

    News Article, Mabel Norris Reese

  • Jim McNalis

    Jim McNalis, Artist

  • Ben Brotemarkle

    Ben Brotemarkle, Executive Director for the Florida Historical Society

  • Gilbert King

    Gilbert King, Author of Devil in the Grove and Ruthless Sun

  • Cindy Erickson

    Cindy Erickson, Granddaughter of Mabel Norris Reese

     

    Mabel Norris Reese. Courageous journalist Mabel Norris Reese covered the infamous Groveland Rape Trial and Ku Klux Klan activities in Lake County in the mid-20th century.

     

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    Episode Number
    39
    Program Date
    • 2020 BLM Protests

      2020 BLM Protests

    • Freedom Riders on planes

      Freedom Riders on planes

    • Freedom Riders on buses

      Freedom Riders on buses

    • Joan Mulholland - Freedom Rider, Rider Duke University/Tougaloo-College

      Joan Mulholland - Freedom Rider, Rider Duke University/Tougaloo-College

    • Kredelle Petway - Freedom Rider, Florida A&M University

      Kredelle Petway - Freedom Rider, Florida A&M University

    • Raymond Arsenault, "Freedom Riders: 1961 and the Struggle for Racial Justice"

      Raymond Arsenault, "Freedom Riders: 1961 and the Struggle for Racial Justice"

       

      The Freedom Rides of 1961 are seen as a pivotal point in the Civil Rights Movement, but it's often forgotten that two groups of Freedom Riders came to Florida.

       

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