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This month Let’s Grab Coffee features conversation with Black Is America host and creator, Dominic Lawson. On today’s show, Dominic and I discuss the ongoing connection between past and present focusing on the fight for Civil Rights. One objective of the Civil Rights Movement was desegregation of leisure spaces and today’s featured Black Is America episode highlights the lengths one man went to draw attention to this part of the fight for racial equality. Tune in to learn more about Ledger “Roller Man” Smith’s unique journey to the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.
The Black Is America podcast highlights little-known African-American figures and stories. This award-winning podcast helps tell the story of America through the lens of the African American experience. For more about Black Is America, visit blackisamericapodcast.com
Listen to Martin Luther King, Jr’s speech from the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom here: https://www.npr.org/2010/01/18/122701268/i-have-a-dream-speech-in-its-entirety
This month Let’s Grab Coffee features conversation with Black Is America host and creator, Dominic Lawson. On today’s show, Dominic and I discuss the ongoing connection between past and present focusing on the fight for Civil Rights. One objective of the Civil Rights Movement was desegregation of leisure spaces and today’s featured Black Is America episode highlights the lengths one man went to draw attention to this part of the fight for racial equality. Tune in to learn more about Ledger “Roller Man” Smith’s unique journey to the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.
The Black Is America podcast highlights little-known African-American figures and stories. This award-winning podcast helps tell the story of America through the lens of the African American experience. For more about Black Is America, visit blackisamericapodcast.com
Listen to Martin Luther King, Jr’s speech from the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom here: https://www.npr.org/2010/01/18/122701268/i-have-a-dream-speech-in-its-entirety
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