Civil Right Tour Holiday Encore Full Three Hour Show for December 16, 2015

From the road in North Carolina. We visited the Historical Stagville plantation site in Durham, The Beloved Community Center and the International Civil Rights Center and Museum in Greensboro, NC. 

Listen it each individual interview by click on the guests name.

Claude Barnes, Researcher at the Jubilee Institute in Greensboro, North Carolina joins Rick to talk about his being elected to student body president as a write-in candidate and how that event turned into he and his classmates being tear gassed and some arrested.

Stephanie Cobert, Managing Director of Historic Stagville takes time to sit down with Rick to talk about the largest plantation in North Carolina history and their mission to keep the history alive.

Beverly McNeill, President of the Stagville Foundation takes Rick on a walk through the slave quarters being maintained on the Historic Stagville Plantation. 

Joyce Johnson Co-Director of the Beloved Community Center in Greensboro NC shares her courageous story as a young girl from Richmond, VA going away to college at Duke University as one of the first African-American women in the school’s history and all of the struggles she has seen.

Lewis Brandon, Grassroots History Coordinator at the Beloved Community Center sits down with Rick to share his story of being a part of history joining four fellow North Carolina A & T sit in of the lunch counter in Greensboro.

Nelson Johnson Executive director Pastor of the Faith Community Church joins Rick to talk about Labor’s involvement in the Greensboro area and the victories workers have had in North Carolina. 

Richard Koritz, Solidarity Representative for APWU and a Board Member at the International Civil Rights Center and Museum joins Rick to talk about the Civil Rights Center and Museum and shares his family’s history of standing up for workers and equality.