Program Information

Series: BackStory with the American History Guys
Program: Susan Rugh
Duration: 00:06:01
Year Produced: 2009
Description:

Historian Susan Rugh describes the discrimination black families faced on America’s highways in the 1940s and 50s. Many of those travelers recounted their experiences in letters to the NAACP – letters that eventually helped convince U.S. Senators to pass the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

BackStory is a public radio program that brings historical perspective to the events happening around us today. On each show, renowned U.S. historians Ed Ayers, Peter Onuf, and Brian Balogh tear a topic from the headlines and plumb its historical depths.

For more information visit: http://www.backstoryradio.org/

Virginia Standards

6th Grade SOLs » History-Social Science » USII.9
11th Grade SOLs » History-Social Science » VUS.14
12th Grade SOLs » History-Social Science » GOVT.11