American History Tellers

American History Tellers

Stonewall | Eric Marcus Remembers the Voices of Stonewall | 5

Season 23July 15, 202039 min

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When the events of Stonewall happened in 1969, Eric Marcus was just a boy away at a New Jersey summer camp. Nearly 20 years later, he would document the voices of revolutionary LGBTQ activists like Marsha P. Johnson, Sylvia Rivera and Frank Kameny for his book, “Making Gay History: The Half-Century Fight for Lesbian and Gay Equal Rights.” While his work started out as a printed oral history, Marcus knew that taping those interviews would “one day have value beyond my book.” And he was right

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The Cold War, Prohibition, the Gold Rush, the Space Race — how well do you really know the stories that made America? Hosted by Lindsay Graham, from Wondery.

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