Civil Rights

To honor the words of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr, we invited WYSO listeners to read his speech as we recorded their voices.

In this encore edition of Rediscovered Radio, we have a story about a white Kentucky woman named Ann McCarty Braden who fought racism in this country for more than sixty years.In the early 1980s, Braden visited Ohio, and Rediscovered Radio producer Jocelyn Robinson found an interview with her in the WYSO Audio Archives.

Now in his 90s, Paul Graham is a soft spoken, retired chemist living in Yellow Springs, where he went to college, launched a career and a family, and eventually became a prominent civil rights activist. His parents had come north, like so many blacks in the early 20th century, and moved to Dayton, where they joined other family members and settled down.

In this installment, we’ll hear about student activism in the 1960s and 70s in Greene County, home to two historically Black colleges – Central State and Wilberforce University AND Antioch College. Students at all three schools organized protests, marches, sit-ins, rallies, pickets and more during those years, pressing hard and relentlessly for civil rights for African Americans.

Our new series from the Eichelberger Center for Community Voices is called Loud as the Rolling Sea. It brings us the voices from a generation of African Americans in Yellow Springs, Ohio, who were the civil rights activists of their day. In our first profile, we meet Dr. Yvonne Seon, founding director of the Bolinga Center at Wright State University.

In the next month, you're going to hear stories that began as a community oral history project 10 years ago in Yellow Springs, when citizens came together to gather the stories of the Civil Rights generation of activists, both Black and white, who were born in the 20s and 30s.

Members of the West Dayton Clergy Community Coalition gathered with a handful of neighborhood residents outside the former Good Samaritan Hospital complex…

Investigators from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services civil rights division are expected to visit Dayton soon. Health advocates say they’ll…

A group of Ohio legislators are trying to add sexual orientation and gender identity or expression into the state’s anti-discrimination law. The bill...

A West Dayton community group is expanding its federal civil rights complaint against Premier Health related to the company's recent closure of Good…

Before the freedom riders and Martin Luther King Jr., there was Bayard Rustin, a gay African American Quaker and civil rights activist.

June 19, 1865 marks the day slavery was abolished in the United States. One hundred fifty-three years later, people across the country continue to…