Ep. 35 | African American History Month: Courtland Cox tells us how we got here

He was an early member of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and shares memories about how the organization was started, and the inception of Black History Month. He explains how people like Marion Barry, Stokely Carmichael, Pete Seeger and Bob Dylan blazed the trail that many in the Black Lives Matter movement follow today.

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