Civil rights movement
Subject in History
Civil rights movement has come up in 2 episodes across 2 podcasts in TMT, including Crime Junkie, Pod Save America. 2 people have made recorded remarks about it.
What people said
Ashley FlowersCreator and host of the true crime podcast Crime Junkie and founder of Audiochuck
Flowers cites declassified records of government surveillance of Martin Luther King Jr. as context for Jones's belief that she was being watched.
“declassified records show that the CIA, along with other U.S. agencies, spied on Martin Luther King Jr”
Crime Junkie: MURDERED: Alberta O. Jones (Jun 15, 2026) · Listen from 30:03
Raphael WarnockU.S. Senator from Georgia and senior pastor of Ebenezer Baptist Church
Warnock argued that the civil rights movement combined moral suasion with economic leverage, as in Birmingham, and that politics requires power.
“right. So politics requires leverage. And it is an exercise in power. And we've got to use all of those tools”
Pod Save America: Will Raphael Warnock Hear the Call? (May 10, 2026) · Listen from 1:04:09
Coverage over time
Podcasts
- Crime Junkie · 1 episode
- Pod Save America · 1 episode
Episodes
MURDERED: Alberta O. JonesCrime Junkie · Jun 15, 2026 · 56 min
Ashley Flowers and Brit Prawat examine the unsolved 1965 murder of Alberta O. Jones, Louisville's first Black woman prosecutor and a civil rights leader.
Will Raphael Warnock Hear the Call?Pod Save America · May 10, 2026 · 1 h 9 min
Jon Favreau interviews Senator Raphael Warnock about the Supreme Court's Voting Rights Act ruling, ICE detention, JD Vance and the Pope, political violence, and Dr. King's legacy.