An Imperfect Revolution: Voices from the Desegregation Era
From: American Public Media
Series: American RadioWorks: Black History
Length: 59:59
Nearly everyone who experienced school desegregation has a story to tell about crossing racial lines. Together they reflect an era marked by struggle and hope, anger and idealism. American RadioWorks travels to Charlotte, NC to talk with people about their memories of integration.
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Nearly everyone who experienced school desegregation has a story to tell about crossing racial lines. Together they reflect an era marked by struggle and hope, anger and idealism. American RadioWorks travels to Charlotte, NC to talk with people about their memories of integration.
Broadcast History
Originally released September, 2007
Transcript
Part 1
Stephen Smith: From American Public Media, this is an American RadioWorks documentary.
Ann Crehore: We were part of something bigger than just riding a bus.
In the 1970s and '80s, a generation of Americans took part in a vast social experiment. They got on buses, and rode across racial lines.
Gwen Jackson: I could see the fear on the white students.
Sonya Lee Gilbert: We all learned. We were all students. We were all kids. We could be friends.
Now the era of desegregation is ending.
Larry Gauvreau: How dare any school system say because you happen to be white you can or cannot do this.
In the next hour, from American RadioWorks, An Imperfect Revolution: Voices from the Desegregation Era. First this news.
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Kathleen Brose teaches piano lessons in her house on Seattle's Magnolia Hill. It's a neighborhood of expensive houses and yards full of flowers...
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Timing and Cues
00:00 - 01:00 (0:59 + :01 silence) Billboard
outcue = "first, this news."
01:00 - 06:00 (5:00) NPR News hole - silence rolling on tape
06:00 - 27:53 (21:53) Part 1
outcue = "American Public Media."
27:53 - 28:53 (0:59 + :01 silence) Floating Break - Music Bed.
28:53 - 59:00 (30:07) Part 2
outcue = "American Public Media."
59:00 - 60:00 (1:00) silence.
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