Program 701: The US Civil Rights Trail; Wild Arctic Svalbard

Get an up close view of American history at a hundred sites along the U. S. Civil Rights Trail. 

On the next Travel with Rick Steves, we’ll hear how it was organized five years ago, to help all Americans understand what people had to do, to dismantle Jim Crow segregation laws across the South.

And ecologist Chris Morgan explains how the Svalbard archipelago at the top of the world is showing us how a warming climate is a threat to life in the Arctic.

• Alabama tourism director Lee Sentell
• John Swaine, CEO, International Civil Rights Center and Museum, Greensboro NC
• Ecologist and filmmaker Chris Morgan

• Lee Sentell is the author of a guide to historical sites along the U.S. Civil Rights Trail.
• An interactive map to the United States Civil Rights Trail.
• John Swaine is the CEO of the International Civil Rights Center and Museum in Greensboro, North Carolina.   
• Diane Nash's role in student sit-ins in Nashville and with the Freedom Riders in Alabama is described by Smithsonian magazine.
• Chris Morgan's website include links to his documentary films and podcast "The Wild."
• Chris spoke with Rick in 2016 about "Wild Europe" on Travel with Rick Steves program #446, and about "Bear Trekking" on program #456.

• Mose Allison, "The Seventh Son," Oxford American Southern Sampler 2000 (collection) / Oxford American
• Dr. Don Shirley, "I Wish I Knew How it Would Feel to be Free," Gospel According to Don Shirley / Columbia (1968)
• Taj Mahal, "Follow the Drinking Gourd," Follow the Drinking Gourd: A Story of the Underground Railroad / Rabbit Ears Productions-BMG Music
• SATV_SATVCD_0133_23501_Runner_APM
• SATV_SATVCD_0133_04001_I_Feel_Good_APM
• * Quincy Jones, "Family Man ('They Call Me Mr. Tibbs!' soundtrack)," MGM Sneak Preview Compilation, disc 2 (soundtrack collection) / Rykodisc
• R. L. Burnside, "Wish I Was in Heaven Sitting Down," Wish I Was in Heaven Sitting Down / Fat Possum Records
• Eric Bibb, "Don't Ever Let Nobody Drag Your Spirit Down," Mali to Memphis: An African-American Odyssey (collection) / Putumayo 
• Carl Burnett, "Lift Every Voice and Sing," Life Before MIDI / (self-released)
• Elizabeth Cotton, "Washington Blues," Shake Sugaree / Smithsonian Folkways
• Intro to Aretha Franklin, "Tiny Sparrow (You Fair and Tender Maidens)," Tiny Sparrow:  The Bobby Scott Sessions / Columbia-Legacy
• HARD_HARD_0087_07401_Ballad_For_Birmingham_mix_1_APM
• Etta Baker, "One Dime Blues," Blues Routes (collection) / Smithsonian Folkways
• The Freedom Singers, "Freedom Chant" (recorded in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, Feb. 1964),  Voices of the Civil Rights Movement-Black American Freedom Songs 1960-1966, disc 1 (collection) / Smithsonian Folkways
• * Grant Green, "Go Down Moses,"  Sanctified (collection) / EMI Blue Note - Tower Records
• Intro to Suzanne Vega, "The Long Voyage," Hector Zazou: Songs of the Cold Seas (collection) / Columbia
• Klemetti Institute Symphony Orchestra, Pertti Pekkanen cond., "The Bog (from 'Cantus Arcticus' op. 61 - Einojuhani Rautavaara)," The Nordic Experience, disc 1 (collection) / Warner Classics
• Wimme, "Adventures in the Scandinavian Skin Trade," Hector Zazou: Songs of the Cold Seas (collection) / Columbia
• Thomas Otten, "Qualitati Umane," Close to Silence / Virgin (France)
• Ben Macdougall and Jeanine Thorpe, "Svalbard: The Final Journey of a Polar Bear"  / (self-released single track)
• Uman, "Bird's Eye View (Rhythmic Remix)," Traveler '99 (collection) / Six Degrees Records

* Indicates filler music used during breaks

• Lee Sentell is referred to as the head of Alabama tourism, and the state's tourism director, in the opens and resets in segments A and B. 
• At 10:27, Lee says that the US Civil Rights Trail was launched on MLK Day in 2018. 
• At 20:40, in the segment B open, Rick describes the Feb. 1, 1960 start of the Woolworth's sit-in in Greensboro NC.
• At 28:32, Lee describes how Diane Nash of Nashville (whom he noted is still living) was given a major award by President Biden for her role in the early days of the Civil Rights movement.
• At 43:56, Rick says that he's heard that you can visit Svalbard with lighter regulations than in the Norwegian mainland.
• In a reset at 46:13, Rick mentions Chris's podcast, "The Wild" and his documentary films.