Listen to the finale, Episode 6, and hear President Obama, Candidate Trump, Paul Manafort, Robert Kennedy, Vice President Humphrey, Mayor Carl Stokes and others in this wrap-up on the political aftermath of the race violence of the 1960s. It is stunning. WKYC found all the audio and sprinkled it with fantastic music selections.
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Above Alfred Thomas ("Unknown"). Below, Leslie Jackson ("Osu Bey"), just 16 in 1968.
Hear the amazing first-hand accounts of urban guerrilla warfare on July 23, 1968 in Cleveland.
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Fred Evans on streets of Hough
In the second of six podcasts, WKYC producer Chris Cantergiani and author Jim Robenalt try to understand Fred "Ahmed" Evans and how he became the leader of black nationalists who ambushed police on July 23, 1968, with long rifles and armor-piercing bullets. This segment also looks at Dr. King's mission in Cleveland in 1967, where he came to help elect Carl Stokes the first African American mayor of a major U. S. city. In that mission, Dr. King will interact with Ahmed Evans.
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In conjunction with WKYC, Cleveland's NBC affiliate, producer Chris Cantergiani and author Jim Robenalt have created a six-part podcast on the book, Ballots and Bullets, Black Power Politics and Urban Guerrilla Warfare in 1968 Cleveland.
In this first episode, the stage is set, taking listeners back to 1964, when Malcolm X first delivered his famous "Ballot or Bullet" speech in Cleveland at Cory Methodist Church. Nine days later, the speech was recorded in Detroit and this episode contains some clips from that influential speech.
Cory Methodist Church, built as a Jewish Synagogue in the 1920s was sold to an African American Methodist church after the Second World War. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., visited Cory one year before Malcolm X, coming straight from Birmingham, Alabama, to raise bail money for the thousands arrested in King's direct action campaign to end segregation in Birmingham.
Thus Cory Methodist Church appears almost as a character in the book, holding within its walls the three Abrahamic traditions: build as a Jewish synagogue, visited by a Christian minister in Dr. King and then by an Islamic teacher in Malcolm X.
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Bobby Kennedy at the City Club of Cleveland the day after MLK was assassinated