Holiday Reflections: The Producer’s Cut

The holidays are approaching and we decided to do a "behind-the-scenes" special episode to share with you. We'll be discussing and giving our thoughts on how the podcast, the guests, and the stories have changed our lives for the better. During this season of reflection and renewal, we take a few moments to look back on the first half of our first season, highlighting some of our favorite moments and to share what we have planned for the future. 
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We wanted to make this a special gift to our listeners and we hope you enjoy opening it up as much as we enjoyed wrapping it together. Thank you for listening and Happy Holidays from the Hidden Legal Figures podcast family.

May I Take Your Order

As the Civil Rights Movement began to intensify, students all across the south staged lunch counter sit-ins. From Greensboro, North Carolina to Atlanta, Georgia lawyers aided them in their quest for justice. Professor Christopher Schmidt, author of The Sit-Ins: Protest and Legal Change in the Civil Rights Era captures this iconic moment from the perspective of a legal historian.
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Prelude: May I Take Your Order

Sit-ins became a prominent part of the civil rights movement in the early 1960s, with the most famous occurring in Greensboro, North Carolina. But as a form of protest, it was first used in 1939 by a lawyer named Samuel Wilbert Tucker. Libraries in Alexandria, Virginia refused to issue library cards to colored citizens and Mr. Tucker used a sit-in to mount a legal challenge to that practice. In early 1960, Franklin McCain was one of the four North Carolina A&T College students who staged a sit-in at the Woolworth's lunch counter in downtown Greensboro as a way to do something about the condition of segregation. Their efforts ultimately led to similar events across the south - in nine states and fifty-four cities. This episode features reflections by McCain on what it was like to be a part of The Greensboro Four and pays tribute to a hidden legal figure whose early twentieth-century insight gave a later generation the tool that would produce groundbreaking civil rights legislation. 
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Thanksgiving Message

Hidden Legal figures will be taking a short break this week in celebration of the Thanksgiving Holiday. But make sure you stay tuned next week for another great episode with Professor Christopher W. Schmidt of the Chicago-Kent College of Law. 
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