People's Historians Podcast

In this episode, from our series on Teach the Black Freedom Struggle, professor Jeanne Theoharis speaks with Tera W. Hunter about Black women’s fight for labor and voting rights. Read about the event and find related resources.

In this episode, from our series on Teach the Black Freedom Struggle, Education Anew Fellow Cierra Kaler-Jones speaks with Daina Ramey Berry and Kali Nicole Gross about their book, A Black Women’s History of the United States. Read about the event and find related resources.

In this episode, from our series on Teach the Black Freedom Struggle, our host, Jesse Hagopian speaks with SNCC veteran Judy Richardson and co-editors Jeanne Theoharis and Pamela Horowitz about Julian Bond and the Southern Civil Rights Movement. Read about the event and find related resources.

In this episode, from our series on Teach the Black Freedom Struggle, our host, Jesse Hagopian speaks with professor Jeanne Theoharis about the new young adult version of her book on Rosa Parks. Read about the event and find related resources.

In this episode, from our series on Teach the Black Freedom Struggle, our host, Teaching for Change board member Tiffany Mitchell Patterson speaks with historian Kidada E. Williams about the history of repression and resistance during Reconstruction with contemporary connections. They discuss Williams’s podcast, Seizing Freedom, which focuses on and brings to life voices that have been muted time and time again. Read about the event and find related resources.

In this episode, from our series on Teach the Black Freedom Struggle, our host, Jesse Hagopian speaks with Dr. Greg Carr about Paul Robeson, a political outlaw, and the lessons for today from the Black Radical Tradition. Read about the event and find related resources.

In this episode, from our series on Teach the Black Freedom Struggle, our host, Zinn Education Project leadership team member Cierra Kaler-Jones speaks with historian Charles M. Payne about voter suppression and white terrorism in the mid-20th century. They discuss Payne’s book, Teach Freedom: Education for Liberation in the African-American Tradition, and the importance of sharing lessons in history, as Payne illustrates with the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). Read about the event and find related resources.

In this episode, our host, Adam Sanchez, a high school teacher and Rethinking Schools editor, interviews historian Manisha Sinha to address the interracial radical abolition movement of the 18th and 19th centuries. Sinha emphasizes the impact of Black abolitionists, particularly those who escaped enslavement  — like  Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman, William Wells Brown, and James W.C. Pennington — who radicalized the movement by introducing more militant tactics. She connects the past to the present by discussing the significance of the word abolition in today’s movement for Black lives. This episode addresses themes of our campaign to Teach Reconstruction. People's Historians online mini-series - Black Freedom Struggle. Music from Rose City Kings from Free Music Archive.

In this episode, from our series on Teach the Black Freedom Struggle, our host, Jesse Hagopian speaks with professor Jeanne Theoharis about the history of rebellions in the United States. Read about the event and find related resources.

In this episode, from our series on the Black Freedom Struggle, our host, Jessica Rucker, a D.C. high school teacher, interviews historian Greg Carr to challenge viewers to reconsider how they understand Reconstruction in the United States. He describes the history of Juneteenth, and what it means to truly honor the history of the holiday during this current uprising. Carr details the emergence of Juneteenth as an emancipatory ritual for people of African descent for centuries. He also tackles the question of citizenship in the modern nation-state and challenges the audience to reconceptualize citizenship. Music from Rose City Kings from Free Music Archive.