Bonus Weekend Podcast: Do Protests Work?

In light of the events in Charlottesville, many people are asking about whether protests can even be effective anymore. For this week’s Bonus Weekend Podcast, we are taking a look back at big protest movements, and whether or not they’ve had a lasting impact. In 2016, Leonard spoke with Wesley Lowery, a Pulitzer Prize-winning national reporter for The Washington Post, who spent a year reporting on protests in Ferguson, Cleveland, Charleston, and Baltimore after the killing of Michael Brown. In 2014, Bruce Dancis came on the show. He was the first student at Cornell to defy the draft by tearing up his draft card and soon became a leader of the draft resistance movement in the 1960s. And this past January, Georgetown history professor and author Michael Kazin discussed the previously untold story of the socially diverse peace movement that nearly kept the United States out of World War I.