Top Podcast Episodes for the History Classroom: Civil Rights Edition

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Feb 12th, 2025

Sometimes as a teacher it is hard to find specific episodes of podcasts that are appropriate for the history classroom, this list is to showcase some amazing episodes that you could use as a learning resource with students.

Episodes

Episode	Date Aired	Categories	Hosts	Episode Guests	Length
Rosa Parks, I'm not tired	October 15, 2020	History Kids Family	Kelly Chase	--	20:48s

Lydia Kompe and the Black Sash during Apartheid Case Case 27	June 2, 2022	History Kids Family	--	--	14:11s

Oodgeroo Noonuccal: Ladies in the House	March 3, 2022	History Kids Family	Kelly Chase	--	7:07s

Zelda in chains	October 6, 2017	History Society Culture	--	--	24:58s

Miss Buchanan’s Period of Adjustment	June 29, 2017	Society Culture History	--	--	30:39s

AWP-36-Peter Norman - the forgotten hero	March 18, 2016	History Society Culture	--	--	26:32s

Searching For Rosa Parks' Pancakes	May 1, 2017	Arts Comedy Food	Dan Pashman	--	37:09s

The Unmasked Protestor ─ Brian Leung's speech at storming of Legislative Council, Hong Kong, July 2019	October 7, 2020	Society Culture	--	--	1:30:04s

Bayard Rustin, 'Angelic Troublemaker' (Part 1)	June 20, 2016	History Society Culture	Tracy V. Wilson Holly Frey	--	30:39s

Bayard Rustin and the Civil Rights Movement (Part 2)	June 22, 2016	History Society Culture	Tracy V. Wilson Holly Frey	--	34:13s

Re-examining the 1960s (part 1) – w/ Ian Lekus	April 12, 2019	Education History	--	--	41:04s

Re-examining the 1960s (part 2) – w/ Ian Lekus	April 26, 2019	Education History	--	--	47:32s

The Lavender Scare – w/ David K. Johnson	November 27, 2018	Education History	--	--	42:22s

The Martha's Vineyard migrant flight has echoes of a dark past: Reverse Freedom Rides	December 11, 2019	Society Culture News	Gene Demby Shereen Marisol Meraji	--	39:38s

Behind The Lies My Teacher Told Me	August 15, 2018	Society Culture News	Gene Demby Shereen Marisol Meraji	--	18:14s

A Treaty Right For Cherokee Representation	October 7, 2020	Society Culture News	Gene Demby Shereen Marisol Meraji	--	26:29s

How history can help shape the debate about an Indigenous voice to Parliament	January 12, 2020	History News Politics	--	--	29:06s

The Australian Dream ─ Stan Grant's speech on racism at Ethics Centre IQ2 Debate, 2015	September 8, 2020	Society Culture	--	--	1:30:14s

A Penetrating Voice ─ Five speeches of Gandhi with Ramachandra Guha	July 1, 2020	Society Culture	--	--	1:28:08s

Section 71: The Tasmanian crime of gay sex	May 5, 2020	History Society Culture	Jan Fran	--	28:38s

In the shadow of Terra Nullius - Part 3 A time of hope to The Uluru Statement from the Heart	January 13, 2019	History News Politics	--	--	29:07s

The 1967 referendum	May 28, 2017	History News Politics	--	--	29:07s

"Let Freedom Ring" from episode #075 "Fierce Urgency of Now"	August 28, 2019	History Education Society	Edward L. Ayers Brian Balogh Nathan Daniel Beau Connolly	--	9:43s

Versus History #12 - Suffragists & Suffragettes	January 26, 2018	History	--	--	30:40s

Versus History #11 - Malcolm X	January 19, 2018	History	--	--	37:20s

Versus History #10 - Martin Luther King	January 1, 2018	History	--	--	41:57s

Lavender Scare	June 15, 2018	Society Culture Documentary	Phoebe Judge	--	28:09s

How MLK & Malcolm X Influenced Each Other	August 12, 2020	Arts Books Society	Terry Gross	Dr. Peniel E. Joseph	47:53s

Jim Crow, Lynching and White Supremacy – w/ Stephen A. Berrey, Hannah Ayers, Lance Warren and Ahmariah Jackson	September 29, 2020	Education History	--	--	1:27:04s

121. No Title	September 14, 2020	Arts Society Culture	Helen Zaltzman	Martin Austwick	58:05s

Edward de Lacy Evans	May 16, 2018	Society Culture History	--	--	00:00s

Jac Jorgenson	December 31, 2018	Society Culture History	--	--	00:00s

The Ghosts of Slaves - The Sorrel-Weed House and Rose Butler	June 17, 2020	True Crime Society Culture	--	--	58:13s

THE REVOLUTIONARY Mae Mallory	October 8, 2018	History Society Culture	Olivia Meikle Katie Nelson	--	29:33s

A Failure to Imagine ─ Don Watson on Paul Keating's Redfern Speech, December 1992	October 31, 2020	Society Culture	--	--	1:39:47s

Making a Scene: The Movement in Literature and Film – w/ Julie Buckner Armstrong	December 22, 2020	Education History	--	--	1:26:25s

#47 A More Complete Story of Black Power with Dr Ashley D Farmer	July 18, 2020	History Education Society	--	--	1:12:16s

#40 The Gaps in the Civil Rights Movement Narrative with Dr Peniel E Joseph	June 29, 2020	History Education Society	--	--	48:22s

Rosa Billinghurst Suffragette	July 28, 2022	History Kids Family	Kelly Chase	--	14:57s

SYMHC Classics: Freedom Riders	February 1, 2020	History Society Culture	Tracy V. Wilson Holly Frey	--	34:21s

The Freedom Rides: Australia Takes Note	September 26, 2011	History Society Culture	Tracy V. Wilson Holly Frey	--	21:34s

The Real Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott – w/ Emilye Crosby	December 8, 2020	Education History	--	--	1:34:55s

Connecting Slavery with the Civil Rights Movement	November 24, 2020	Education History	--	--	46:34s

In Search Of Rosa Parks' Pancakes	April 12, 2021	Arts Comedy Food	Dan Pashman	--	33:50s

Freedom Rides Down Under	February 15, 2021	History Society Culture	Sally Helm	--	27:15s

Brown vs The Board of Education	May 17, 2017	Society Culture Personal Journals	--	--	9:26s

Brown v The Board of Education	May 20, 2017	History Society Culture	Max Pearson	--	51:35s

Black Lives Matter and the Climate	September 24, 2020	Society Culture Science	Dr. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson Alex Blumberg	--	50:59s

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