Civil Right Tour Holiday Encore Full Three Hour Show for December 29, 2015

Richard Franklin is the AFT Birmingham Local 2115 President and he explains the history of the white John Herbert Philips School, school desegregation and the education challenges we're still fighting today.

Marion Orange Easleyis a Birmingham resident and the sister of James Orange, who was Martin Luther King's right hand man.  She explains how James Orange got involved in the civil rights movement, his involvement in the famous Children's Crusade and rose up the ranks of the movement

Ahmad Ward is the Head of Education at the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute.  Ahmad sheds light on some of the city's civil rights icons that are left out of the history books & talks about the tour he gave the show through the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute

William Bell is the Mayor of Birmingham and he talks about economic equality, the city's effort to raise the wage and how he came up through the civil rights movement

Mary Moore is a State Representative from Birmingham who was part of the 1963 Children's Crusade and instead of talking about her involvement in the march, she talks about what it was like growing up black in Alabama. 

Janice Wesley Kelsey was part of the Birmingham Children's Crusade.  She was in the first group of students who marched out of the 16th Street Baptist Church in May 1963, and she shares her story about the march and getting arrested. 

Horace Huntley is a Professor of History at the University of Alabama and he came on the Peoples Tour to talk about Birmingham's history of using convict mine workers that pitted black miners against white miners.