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	Podcast:		StoryCorps
	Episode:		The Leesburg Stockade Girls
	Category:		Society & Culture
	Duration:		00:12:28
	Publish Date:		2019-01-08 05:01:25
	Description:		In 1963, more than a dozen African American teenage girls were arrested for protesting segregation laws in Americus, Georgia. They spent one night in the county jail, but were quickly hauled outside the city, where they spent the next two months locked inside a stockade. In this episode, the Leesburg Girls shine a light on an overlooked moment in civil rights history.
	Total Play:		9