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.
Towards Justice
Towards Justice: Leonard Edwards
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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 favour of one of the most consequential civil rights laws in American history. Leonard discusses how his fight for justice has been a lifelong pursuit, from his first protest outside a Woolworth store aged thirteen, to his decades-long career as a public defender, lawyer and judge, protecting abused and neglected children.