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Looking Back at the Civil Rights Years Updated: 2007-06-08 15:00:00 Description: Join NPR reporter and commentator Juan Williams in a Citizens’ Constitutional Conversation. From 1954 to 1965, America experienced one of the most tumultuous and momentous periods in its history. Supreme Court Chief Justice Earl Warren declared that separate educational facilities were "inherently unequal," overturning Plessy v. Ferguson; Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus squared off with President Dwight Eisenhower over admitting nine black students into Little Rock Central High School; White authorities violently attacked hundreds of civil rights marchers as they left Selma, Alabama on "Bloody Sunday." Today, events such as these continue to have resonance in a country where debates about social and political equality endure. Program recorded on 9/26/2006. LISTEN NOW | DOWNLOAD |
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