How Black WWII Veterans Ignited the Civil Rights Movement - W2W 058

Описание: Decades before the words Black Lives Matter existed, Black American veterans were already fighting the same battle at home. After World War II, hundreds of thousands of Black soldiers returned from the frontlines of Europe and Asia believing they had earned the rights they had defended abroad. Instead, they were met with segregation, voter suppression, police violence, and terror under Jim Crow laws.

This episode explores how Black WWII veterans became a driving force behind the early Civil Rights Movement — joining the NAACP, challenging segregation in court, organizing protests, and refusing to accept second-class citizenship in the nation they had fought to protect.

From the brutal blinding of veteran Isaac Woodard Jr., to landmark legal battles led by Thurgood Marshall, from the Journey of Reconciliation to Brown v. Board of Education, this is the story of how the fight for freedom moved from foreign battlefields to American streets, courtrooms, buses, and classrooms.

We follow the rise of mass nonviolent resistance through figures like Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King Jr., the Montgomery Bus Boycott, and the creation of the SCLC — while also confronting the violent backlash, political resistance, and human cost that defined the struggle.

This is not just the history of civil rights legislation. It is the story of veterans who refused to stop fighting — and a reminder that equality in the United States has never been automatic, inevitable, or finished.

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Hosted by: Spartacus Olsson
Director: Astrid Deinhard
Producers: Astrid Deinhard and Spartacus Olsson
Executive Producers: Astrid Deinhard, Indy Neidell, Spartacus Olsson
Co-produced by: Sebastian Brandstetter
Creative Director: Iryna Dulka
Community Management: Anna Deinhard & Tom Aldis
Written by: Spartacus Olsson, Jesse Karami
Research by: Jesse Karami
Edited by: Karolina Dołęga
Color grading by: Karolina Dołęga
Artwork by: Himanka Kalita
Sound design by: Marek Kamiński

Colorizations by:
Karolina Dołęga
Mikołaj Uchman
Julius Jääskeläinen

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Image sources:

New York Public Library
National Archives NARA
Soundtracks from Epidemic Sound:
Library of Congress
Three students at Clinton High School picket their school as it became the first state-supported school in Tennessee to integrate..S. DESEGREGATION PROTEST, CLINTON, USA
Photographs from the Emmett Till Collection at University of Memphis:
"Carolyn Bryant and Juanita Milam, 1955" (2021). Emmett Till. 14. https://digitalcommons.memphis.edu/sp...
„Roy Bryant in court, Sumner, Mississippi, 1955" (2021). Emmett Till. 16. https://digitalcommons.memphis.edu/sp...
"J.W. Milam in court, Sumner, Mississippi, 1955" (2021). Emmett Till. 17. https://digitalcommons.memphis.edu/sp...
Photo of the of meeting at Liberty Hill A.M.E. Church by Cecill Williams courtesy of University of South Carolina. South Caroliniana Library
Photos of the 1948 campaign Strom Thurmond courtesy Jeremy Gray
Portrait of Harry F. Byrd courtesy of University of Virginia

Soundtracks from EpidemicSound:

The Inspector 4 - Johannes Bornlöf
The End Of The World 2 - Håkan Eriksson
Rememberance - Fabien Tell
Potential Redemption - Max Anson
Plausible Cause - Fabien Tell
Other Sides of Glory - Fabien Tell
Never Before - Fabien Tell
London - Howard Harper-Barnes
Last Point of Safe Return - Fabien Tell
Guilty Shadows 4 - Andreas Jamsheree
Fly Baby Fly - Fabien Tell.mp3
Deviation In Time - Johannes Bornlof
Break Free - Fabien Tell.mp3
A Swallow's Escape - Fabien Tell

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