{"podcast":{"title":"The Persistence","slug":"the-persistence-7020722","podcast_index_feed_id":7020722,"rss_url":"https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/471492/s/139473.rss","website_url":"https://obsessivelycurious.substack.com/s/the-persistence","image_url":"https://substackcdn.com/feed/podcast/471492/s/139473/3a3d39dbefaaee7860e83b20ffc1beb5.jpg","author":"Angélica Cordero","episode_count":29,"summary":"The dynamic story of the unyielding spirit of progress. Fearless. Uninterrupted. Relentless.","last_synced_at":null,"page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-persistence-7020722"},"episode":{"title":"Episode 15: Strange You Never Knew","slug":"episode-15-strange-you-never-knew","published_at":"2026-03-27T10:55:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-persistence-7020722/episode-15-strange-you-never-knew","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-persistence-7020722","url":"https://obsessivelycurious.substack.com/p/episode-15-strange-you-never-knew","audio_url":"https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/192011367/3f25ebfd5f6a262351d3ebbcbca3f42f.mp3","summary":"In this episode of The Persistence , Angélica Cordero examines the breaking point of the 1960s, when the promises of the Civil Rights Movement collided with the reality of the Vietnam War, political violence, and a growing crisis of trust in American institutions. By the mid-1960s, landmark legislation like the Civil Rights Act suggested progress. But on the ground, racial inequality, police violence, and economic injustice persisted. Then 1968 reshaped everything. The Tet Offensive exposed the gap between government messaging and the reality of the Vietnam War. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated while organizing for labor and economic justice. Weeks later, Robert F. Kennedy was killed. Across the country, protests, uprisings, and political fractures revealed a deeper truth: the system wasn’t failing. It was functioning as designed. Through the rise of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), the emergence of Black Power, and the tensions within coalition politics, this episode explores how movements shift from demanding civil rights to confronting power itself. This is a story about the 1960s, but it is also about how people recognize when the official narrative stops making sense and what happens next. This episode was written by and produced by Angélica Cordero, with a little help from ChatGPT. Our theme song is Don’t Kid Yourself Baby by Fold , used with their blessings. Podcast artwork for The Persistence features Mexican-American activist Jovita Idar and was created by Tamra Collins of Sunroot Studio . Resources For Fellow Wascally Wabbits Books The Day They Marched: 1963 March on Washington Booklet edited by Doris E. Saunders Jane Crow and the Law: Sex Discrimination and Title VII by Pauli Murray and Mary Eastwood (George Washington Law Review…","meta_description":"In this episode of The Persistence , Angélica Cordero examines the breaking point of the 1960s, when the promises of the Civil Rights Movement collided wi…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2412,"processing_state":"processed","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-persistence-7020722/episodes/episode-15-strange-you-never-knew/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-persistence-7020722/episode-15-strange-you-never-knew.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}