Podcasts by On The Bus UW Civil Rights Pilgrimage - The House of Podcasts

About this podcast from 2022-12-12T20:27:30

From 2015 through 2017 I had the responsibility and the privilege to take trips across the south with groups of students and citizens of the Seattle area. Scholar, author and UW Profes...

Robert Moses, Civil Rights Hero from 2018-05-10T21:23:57

Robert Moses is a MacArthur Genius award winning hero of the civil rights movement.

Finding The Right Words, Meg Lippert Lauren Mata, On The Bus, Spring 2016 from 2016-04-17T19:27

Can people with hate and bigotry in their heads find a path towards reconciliation?

Sense of Injustice, David Domke and Jarlin Division - On the Bus, Spring 2016 from 2016-04-02T18:33:08

The Equal Justice Initiative seeks to get the innocent out of prison and share some grace with even the guilty.

What is the Story of Your Name Michael Moynihan and Nathan Bean - On the Bus, Spring 2016 from 2016-04-02T18:32:54

One way we got to know each other on the pilgrimage was by asking each other about our names.

Know History, Andy Reynolds and Davon White- On the Bus, Spring 2016 from 2016-04-01T19:18:42

On the Bus with the March 2016 Civil Rights Pilgrimage supported by community members and the UW, Bellevue College and USU

Remembering Emmett Till, Julie Lyons and Kira Baker- On the Bus, Spring 2016 from 2016-04-01T17:38:43

Emmett Till's story still resonates. It motivates people today who are seeking justice and reconciliation

Leaving Money, Rolling into Sumner, Davon White and Calvin Lyons - On the Bus, Spring 2016 from 2016-03-04T07:28

Leaving Money, Mississippi, Samri Tasew and Ron Posthuma- On the Bus, Spring 2016 from 2016-03-04T07:14:56

We went to Money, Mississippi to track the legacy of the murder of Emmett Till. The murder was more than 60 years ago, but it isn't forgotten. The pain seems to linger like a heavy shadow over p...

Black Power Leads To Black Lives Matter- Michael Moynihan and Bob Zellner- On the Bus, Spring 2016 from 2016-03-03T07:10:13

There is a direct line from the 60's call for black power to today's black lives matter movement.

Equal Justice Jeanine Blue Lupton and Mark Pearson- On the Bus, Spring 2016 from 2016-03-03T06:06:06

Anthony Ray HInton was on death row for 30 years for a crime he didn't commit. The criminal justice system deliberately failed him. A Trump rally can conjure up images of that sort of complacent e...

Courage and Pain- Rita Kelly, Jason Gilmore- On the Bus, Spring 2016 from 2016-03-01T07:23:33

The courage of youth inspired change 60 years ago. That courage is inspiring another generation to stand up to injustice. Courage and Injustice seem to go hand in hand.

Exhilaration and Exhaustion- Sly Cann and Susan Shulkin - On the Bus, Spring 2016 from 2016-03-01T07:11:15

The wounds of slavery still fester in the South and across the nation.

Nashville- Vichayapai, Copoloff, Tran, Michener, Raman and Halprin from 2016-02-29T06:26:07

Fisk University was the crucible of planning for the civil rights movement

What's The Story of Your Name- Baker, Bell, Copoloff, Division, Huang, Mata, Raman, Tran and White - On the Bus, Spring 2016 from 2016-02-27T06:39:16

Our names are not our identities, but they can reveal something about ourselves

Martha's Place- On the Bus, Fall 2015 from 2016-02-02T04:34:49

Martha Hawkins held on to her dreams through tough times in the Jim Crow south.

Love and Faith and Music- On the Bus, Fall 2015 from 2015-10-11T11:57:53

The foot soldiers of the civil rights movement were shot, beaten, jailed, even murdered. Yet they kept on marching. Love for their community and faith in justice bound them. Music was the g...

Black Power- On the Bus, Fall 2015 from 2015-10-09T08:08:48

From the Mississippi Delta, the call for Black Power, electrified the nation in the 1960's. For some it was an affirmation of hope and strength, a path to economic and political empowerment.

The Heart and Soul of Community -On The Bus Fall 2015 from 2015-10-07T17:19:47

For all the ways we devise to pull communities apart,  people find ways to rebuild,
 

Resolve: On The Bus, Fall 2015 from 2015-10-05T13:03:42

History doesn’t stay in the past.

The issues that drove an earlier generation to demand justice for all remain unresolved. 

I’m Cynthia Wanjiku along with Scott MacDonald...

Zellner University - On the Bus, Spring 2015 from 2015-03-23T20:34:24

Bob Zellner is a civil rights foot soldier.  He marched with Dr. King, with Rosa Parks, with John Lewis.

Bob Zellner joined our group ostensibly to provide some h...

Marching On- On the Bus, Spring 2015 from 2015-03-09T20:52:51

We marched across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma Alabama. The sun was shining 50 years after bloody Sunday. We sang the hallowed songs again with thousands and thousands f...

Witness to History: Della Mae Simpson Maynor - On the Bus, Spring 2015 from 2015-03-09T16:33:41

The teen-aged Della Mae Simpson Maynor so wanted to be on the front line at the voting rights march Listen

Talking About The Color of Our Skin- On the Bus, Spring 2015 from 2015-03-09T14:55:51

The wise doctors in our group of 52 strong talked about the tiny millimeters of skin they have slice through in order to reach the blood, the vessels and the organs. The tinged flesh, this ...

Joanne Bland, Selma Marcher- On the Bus, Spring 2015 from 2015-03-08T23:39:24

President Obama came to Selma, Alabama  on the 50th anniversary of the bloody march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge to Listen

Emmett Till, Money, Mississippi- On the Bus, Spring 2015 from 2015-03-07T06:47:28

Emmett Till was a 14 year old Chicagoan visiting his cousins in Money, Mississippi in 1955 when he was brutally murdered by white men for supposedly speaking to the 21 year o...

UMiss-Another Step Along the Journey - On the Bus, Spring 2015 from 2015-03-05T22:48:04

James Meredith reportedly doesn't like the statue the University of Mississippi has put up on campus to honor his role in integrating the school in 1962.  In part, it's said he wa...

Fannie Lou Hamer- On the Bus, Spring 2015 from 2015-03-05T04:57:12

Fannie Lou Hamer was one of the heroes of the civil rights movement in the 1960’s. 

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Central High School Little Rock Arkansas- On the Bus, Spring 2015 from 2015-03-04T17:20:15

A young woman in a white skirt walked down the street in front of Central High School in Little Rock Arkansas in 1957. A mob of screaming white citizens spit on her, threw tr...

Bernard Lafayette and the Lessons of Non-violence- On the Bus, Spring 2015 from 2015-03-04T14:15:20

The 16th Street Baptist Church- On the Bus, Spring 2015 from 2015-03-04T08:16:55

Shallow and Deep -Patrick Okocha and Steve Scher from 2015-03-03T05:36:44

Welcome To The Beloved Community- On the Bus, Spring 2015 from 2015-03-02T08:34:27

At the 1st Baptist Church in Montgomery, we were met with hugs and handshakes and song. A swirling, all encompassing, all embracing song of love. 

On The Bus-To Tuscaloosa- On the Bus, Spring 2015 from 2015-03-01T17:30:32

On the bus from Atlanta to Tuscaloosa.

Prologue: The Waiting Room- On the Bus, Spring 2015 from 2015-02-27T23:00

Prologue: Kane Hall February 23rd- Anticipation, Trepidation, Empowerment and Song

Monday, February 23rd, at the UW's Kane Hall, where David Domke and friends deliver the last of 5 le...

Prologue: The Legacy of Selma- On the Bus, Spring 2015 from 2015-02-23T21:31

The Legacy of Selma still drives America.

50 years ago, American citizens were being killed in the...