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This podcast episode “Los Angeles and CORE – The Freedom Rides 1947-61” delves into the origins of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) and their pivotal role in the civil rights movement. The episode focuses on James Farmer, a civil rights activist and one of the founders of CORE, who was instrumental in organizing the Freedom Rides of 1961 in Alabama and Mississippi.The Freedom Rides were a series of bus trips taken by civil rights activists to challenge segregation in public transportation.
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Suffrage And The Printed Word The popularisation through film and television programmes of modern history obviously has immense scope for engaging new generations with the past, but it also can have the effect of narrowing and simplifying complex historical processes and movements. The women’s suffrage movement that existed between the 1860s and the First World War is a case in point. The popular perception of the movement is that of the suffragettes, angrily smashing windows in Whitehall and chaining themselves to railings. Whilst the militant tactics of the WSPU and the response of the Asquith government are an important part…