Boycotts have been a strategy and tactic for advancing social and economic justice, especially when laws, courts, or government are not on the people's side as they were for Black citizens in 1955. In Ep. 67 Michon and Taquiena (aka The Boston Sisters) talk about why they highly recommend the 2001 HBO film BOYCOTT.
Directed by Clark Johnsonand based on the book Daybreak of Freedom by Stewart Burns BOYCOTT chronicles the 1955 Montgomery Bus Boycott, where a 26-year old minister named Martin Luther King ,Jr (Jeffrey Wright) was called by the community to lead a local movement that ended segregation on public transportation in Montgomery and throughout the United States.
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Timestamps
0:00 INTRO to Podcast
2:53 Montgomery Bus Boycott historical background
4:06 Why Michon and Taquiena recommend BOYCOTT film
8:59 Martin Luther King Junior at 26, young minister, husband, father, reluctant leader
13:19 - Montgomery Bus Boycott from one day to 13 months
14:52 - Overcoming roadblocks, arrests, disruptions to the boycott
19:22 - A Black community organizing and pulling together
20:42 - Resource: Putting the Movement Back In the Civil Rights Movement (Teaching for Change)
22:36 - Charles Hamilton Houston challenges "separate but equal" segregation in the courts
23:36 - Bayard Rustin and Gandhian nonviolence
26: 42 - Hidden history: nonviolence and violence-based strategies in Civil Rights Movement
29:23 - History is choices
31:23 - Many voices, one movement -- what the Montgomery Bus Boycott achieved
34:02 - Where to find BOYCOTT film
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