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Podcast: The Preamble
Episode: 159. Momentum: The Ripples Made by Ordinary People, Part 14
Description: On today’s episode in our special series, Momentum: Civil Rights in the 1950s, Sharon talks about some of the most important components of a successful movement: money and reputation. Movements take a lot of financial support and many of the organizers worked day jobs with humble salaries. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.? He made $8,000 a year in his position as a minister. But organizing rallies and marches and lectures… filing lawsuits and traveling from city to city? It all costs money.Learn who supported the work of some of the most influential Civil Rights leaders and...