Latest Episode
The Life of Rosa Parks: Mother of the Civil Rights movement
Rosa Parks was a civil rights activist and recognized as the “mother of the modern day civil rights movement” in America. Her refusal to surrender her seat to a white passenger on a Montgomery bus, December 1955, triggered a wave of protests that...
Recent Episodes
September 19, 2022
The Life of Rosa Parks: Mother of the Civil Rights movement
Rosa Parks was a civil rights activist and recognized as the “mother of the modern day civil rights movement” in America. Her refusal to surrender her seat to a white passenger on a Montgomery bus, December 1955, triggered a wave of protests that...
September 05, 2022
Lost in the Movement: The Story of Claudette Colvin
Claudette Colvin is an pioneer of the 1950s civil rights movement. On March 2, 1955, she was arrested at the age of 15 in Montgomery, Alabama, for refusing to give up her seat to a white woman on a crowded, segregated bus. Audio...
June 27, 2022
The Murder of Emmett Till
Emmett Louis Till, was a 14-year-old African American who was lynched in Mississippi in 1955, after being accused of offending a white woman in her family's grocery store. The brutality of his murder and the fact that his killers were acquitted drew...
June 19, 2022
Bonus - The History of Juneteenth (Remastered)
Juneteenth is annual holiday celebrating the emancipation of those who had been enslaved in the United States, its a mix of June and Nineteenth, Originating in Galveston, Texas, it is now celebrated annually on June 19 throughout the United States,...
June 06, 2022
Brown vs The Board of Education of Topeka
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka was a landmark 1954 Supreme Court case in which the Supreme Court ruled unanimously that racial segregation of children in public schools was unconstitutional. Brown v. Board of Education was one of the...
May 30, 2022
The History of Black Wall St. and The Tulsa Massacre (Remastered)
During the early 20th century, Tulsa was recognized nationally for its African American community known as the Greenwood District. It was home to a thriving business district and surrounding residential area that earned it the nickname “Black Wall...
Join our mailing list and keep up to date on all our new episodes from One Mic History
Recent Blog Posts
Kwame Ture was born June 29, 1941, He was a civil rights a…
Kwame Ture was born June 29, 1941 in Port of Spain, Trinidad, He was a civil rights activist, leader of Black nationalism in the United States in the 196…
April 15, 1975, Asa Philip Randolph was born, He was civil…
April 15th 1889, Asa Philip Randolph was born. He was civil rights activist. who founded the first Black labor union, helped organized to end segregati…
April 12, 1975, Josephine Baker died, She was a American-b…
Josephine Baker died 12 April, 1975. She was a American-born French entertainer, French Resistance agent, and civil rights activist. Baker became wildl…