"Weekend America," a nationally syndicated radio show produced and distributed by American Public Media via NPR, will feature an interview with Maurice Isserman, James L. Ferguson Professor of History, on the weekend of June 21. Part of an ongoing series titled "This Weekend in 1968," the interview includes Isserman's account of how on the night of his high school graduation in June 1968, he boarded a train for Washington, D.C., joined a rally in support of the Poor People's Campaign and then stayed to observe the final days of Resurrection City. America Public Media is the nation's second-largest producer and distributor of public radio programs.
Isserman met and spent time with members of the notorious Blackstone Rangers gang from Chicago who had come to support the Poor People's Campaign. Among the last of Resurrection City's "hold-outs," he was arrested for his act of civil disobedience on the Capitol grounds. Resurrection City is viewed by many as the final act of the civil rights movement.
The interview will be broadcast by NPR on more than 100 public radio stations across the country.
