Towards Justice
Towards Justice is a podcast about some of the inspiring people who fought in the Civil Rights Movement. Each episode profiles a different veteran and illustrates how the lessons of the 1960s Freedom Struggle paved the way for a life devoted to social justice. The podcast title is based on the quote, made famous by Martin Luther King Jr., that “the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice.”
The podcast is hosted by Hannah Simpson, a British documentary Assistant Producer, who has studied United States History & Politics in the UK and America.
Podcasting since 2025 • 6 episodes
Towards Justice
Latest Episodes
Towards Justice: Jim Kates
Jim Kates was just a teenager when he travelled down to Mississippi during the Freedom Summer campaign of 1964. He worked in the community to register Black Mississippians for the vote and taught African American children about their history in...
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Season 1
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Episode 5
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Towards Justice: Ken Cloke
Ken Cloke was a vocal civil rights activist on his campus at the University of California, Berkeley in the early 1960s. He helped organize Freedom Rides, supported sit-ins and worked closely with John Lewis, the President of the Student Nonviol...
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Season 1
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Episode 4
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23:42
Towards Justice: Alice Pretlow
At the age of just eight years old, Alice Pretlow was among the first African American students to integrate an all-white school in Batesville, Mississippi. This came after the landmark Brown Vs Board of Education decision of 1954 which require...
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Episode 3
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26:17
Towards Justice: Leonard Edwards
Leonard Edwards was a student at Wesleyan University, Connecticut, when he traveled down to Mississippi as part of the Freedom Summer campaign of 1964. Meanwhile, his father, the prominent Californian Congressman Don Edwards, was voting in favo...
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Episode 2
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20:51
Towards Justice: Dr Robert Fullilove
Dr Robert Fullilove spent his early twenties in the Deep South working as a field secretary for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). As the son and grandson of prominent Black physicians from Mississippi, Dr Fullilove was motiv...
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Season 1
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Episode 1
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28:16