Episode 16: I See No Changes

The late 1960s were supposed to be proof that things were working.
Civil rights legislation had passed. The language of progress was everywhere. On paper, it looked like the system had responded.
But on the ground?
That story didn’t hold.
This episode explores the turning point of the 1960s civil rights movement, where protests, policing, and public trust in American institutions began to shift.
From the Watts uprising to the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., from student protests and occupations at Columbia University to the Chicano walkouts across the Southwest, from the American…