Nashville Sit-ins, Mardi Gras - February 13

Tuesday, February 13, 2024

Today is Extraterrestrial Visitor Day, Pancake Day, Kiss Day, Cheddar Day, Crab Rangoon Day, Tortellini Day, Mardi Gras, and World Radio Day.

Black History Month Resource of the Day: Bayard Rustin

• Who Designed the March on Washington
• Brother Outsider - Presidential Medal of Freedom Ceremony
• Brother Outsider: The Life of Bayard Rustin
• For Jobs and Freedom
• Bayard Rustin Street Dedication
• Spectrum: Bayard Rustin
• PBS LearningMedia: Understanding LGBTQ+ Identity: A Toolkit for Educators: Bayard Rustin

Today's Birthdays
Songs of the Day
Today's Theme: Nashville Sit-ins
Watch

ON THIS DATE

• 1542 -  England's King Henry VIII's fifth wife, Catherine Howard, is executed for adultery.
• 1635 - Boston Public Latin School, the first public school in what is now the U.S., is founded.
• 1914 - The American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) is founded.
• 1920 - The League of Nations recognizes the neutrality of Switzerland.
• 1960 - Black college students stage the first of the Nashville sit-ins at three lunch counters in Nashville, Tennessee.
• 2000 - Charles Schulz's final "Peanuts" comic strip runs in Sunday newspapers, one day after his death.

BIRTHDAYS

• 1891 - Painter Grant Wood
• 1923 - Test pilot Chuck Yeager
• 1944 - Actor Stockard Channing
• 1950 - English singer-songwriter Peter Gabriel

SONG OF THE DAY 

• Peter Gabriel - Sledge Hammer - LISTEN
• The Royal Guardsmen - Snoopy v. the Red Baron - LISTEN
• Tony Awards - You're a Good Man Charlie Brown - LISTEN

THEME:  Nashville Sit-ins

• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - John Lewis: Get in the WayThe Nashville Sit-Ins (3:33) - VIEW
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Diane Nash and the Sit-Ins (5:59) - VIEW, READ, DO
• Grades 6-12 - Teach with Movies - A Force More Powerful Lesson - DO
• Grades 7-12 - Black Past - Nashville Sit-ins - READ
• Grades 7-12 - The Civil Rights Digital Library - Sit-ins: Nashville, Tenn. (1:07) - READ, VIEW, LISTEN
• Grades 7-12 - Tennessee Encyclopedia - Nashville Sit-ins - READ
• Grades 7-12 - Nashville Student Movement - SNCC Digital Gateway - READ
• Grades 7-12 - Library of Congress - Sit-ins in Nashville, Tennessee (2:01) - VIEW

THEME:  Mardi Gras

• Grades K-5 - PBS LearningMedia - All About the Holidays - Mardi Gras (1:36) - VIEW
• Grades 4-8 - PBS LearningMedia - Jazz: A Brass Band Performance - When the Saints Go Marching In (2:10) - VIEW
• Grades 4-12 - NHPBS Video - Mardi Gras (2:51) - VIEW 
• Grades 5-12 - NHPBS Video - Float Building (27:45)  - VIEW
• Grades 8-12 - NHPBS Video - Art Rocks! The Series - Artist Herb Roe (28:39) - VIEW

WATCH

NHPBS - 11.1 Comcast (2/802) More Options

GOSPEL - Take the Message Everywhere/Gospel's Second Century
Tuesday, 2/13 from 9-11 pm NHPBS
Gospel was going mainstream and family dynasties, many raised in the Church of God in Christ, would dominate the charts./The 1990s usher in a new generation of music producers, record executives, and artists who embrace the secular rhythms of R&B and hip-hop to modernize the gospel sound. GOSPEL Streaming Video

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INDEPENDENT LENS - Outta the Muck
Tuesday, 2/13 from 12-1:30 pm NH EXPLORE
Beyond sending over a dozen players to the NFL, Pahokee, a rural town on the banks of Lake Okeechobee in Florida possesses a legacy of resilience and achievement in the face of great storms and personal trauma. INDEPENDENT LENS Streaming Video

INDEPENDENT LENS - The Picture Taker
Tuesday, 2/13 from 1:30-3 pm NH EXPLORE
The vibrant, complicated life of Ernest Withers, Black photographer of the Civil Rights movement and paid FBI informant, was anything but black and white. INDEPENDENT LENS Streaming Video

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JIM CROW OF THE NORTH
Tuesday, 2/13 from 2-3 pm NH WORLD
This look at the origins of housing segregation examines how racist real estate covenants set the stage for loan refusals, or redlining, in the U.S. JIM CROW OF THE NORTH Streaming Video

NOVA - Star Chasers of Senegal
Tuesday, 2/13 from 9-10 pm NH WORLD
A visionary astronomer in West Africa attempts a high-stakes observation of a distant asteroid vital to a NASA mission. From prehistoric ruins to Islamic skywatchers, explore the heritage and future of African astronomy. NOVA Streaming Video

Pressroom Contact

Carla Gordon Russell
Director of Communications
crussell@nhpbs.org
(603) 868-4339