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Teenage Hero: Reaching for the Moon: 79

Released Sunday, 13th March 2022
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Teenage Hero: Reaching for the Moon: 79

Teenage Hero: Reaching for the Moon: 79

Teenage Hero: Reaching for the Moon: 79

Teenage Hero: Reaching for the Moon: 79

Sunday, 13th March 2022
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In which Carla learns that the most important Supreme Court case of the civil rights movement was brought about by a sixteen-year-old in her state...and an entire county in her state shut down public school rather than integrate.
Marked explicit for racism and racist violence.

Theme song and stinger: “Comadreamers I” by Haunted Me, off their Pleasure album, used with permission

My history teacher, Mr. Curtis: https://www.theremightbecupcakes.com/goodbye-my-friend-for-now/
Referenced episodes: 9: Family Trees: https://www.theremightbecupcakes.com/episode-9-family-trees/


Sources and recommended reading:
Something Needs to Be Done About Prince Edward County: A Family, A Virginia Town, and a Civil Rights Battle by Kristin Green https://bookshop.org/a/6560/9780062268686
Parting the Waters: America in the King Years 1954-63 by Taylor Branch https://bookshop.org/a/6560/9780671687427
14th Amendment: https://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/amendmentxiv, https://www.history.com/topics/black-history/fourteenth-amendment
5th Amendment: https://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/fifth_amendment
Plessy v. Ferguson: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Plessy_v._Ferguson
R. R. Moton HS/Museum: https://www.nps.gov/places/virginia-robert-russa-moton-high-school.htm
https://motonmuseum.org
Reverend Vernon Johns and Reverend Martin Luther King: https://kinginstitute.stanford.edu/encyclopedia/johns-vernon
Barbara Rose Johns: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Rose_Johns
Davis v. County Board of Education of Prince Edward County: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Davis_v._County_School_Board_of_Prince_Edward_County
Brown v. Board of Education: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_v._Board_of_Education
Savage Inequalities: Children in America’s Schools by Jonathan Kozol https://bookshop.org/a/6560/9780770435684
The Stanley Plan: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanley_Plan
The Brown Scholarship—how to apply: http://brownscholarship.virginia.gov

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