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Christina Rogers and Vester Acoff sat down to remember the death of their sister, Latasha Harlins, whose killing over 30 years ago was one of the c...
Bought by WYAP
- Added: May 04, 2022
- Length: 02:20
- Purchases: 1
Mary Othella Burnette tells her daughter, Debora Hamilton Palmer, about “Granny Hayden,” a second-generation midwife in Black Appalachia.
Bought by Vermont Public
- Added: Feb 25, 2022
- Length: 02:37
- Purchases: 1
At the start of World War II, 200 women were employed at the Brooklyn Navy Yard. That number ballooned to 7,000 at the height of the war, but after...
- Added: Oct 15, 2021
- Length: 29:59
- Purchases: 2
Dr. Olivia Hooker, who lived to be 103, sat down with her goddaughter Janis Porter to discuss her groundbreaking life as the first African American...
- Added: Mar 03, 2020
- Length: 02:05
150 years ago, two girls crossed the Missouri River trying to escape a life of slavery. In the summer of 2016, Barry Jurgensen set out on a 500-mil...
Bought by KUER
- Added: Mar 29, 2017
- Length: 30:00
- Purchases: 1
In the mid 1800’s, boomtown-San Francisco was a city of men, only about 15 percent women. Slavery was illegal in the West but still-- white men wer...
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Sep 18, 2015
- Length: 10:30
- Purchases: 1
Connecticut man remembers a murder that changed course of the civil rights movement.
- Added: Nov 13, 2014
- Length: 04:16
This feature explores the life and some of the myths of Harriet Tubman with interviews by experts from Cambridge, MD, the town where "Moses" was bo...
Bought by WHCP-LP Cambridge, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, and KUOW
- Added: Jan 24, 2011
- Length: 06:16
- Purchases: 3
Alberta Martin and Daisy Anderson are the last living Civil War Widows.
Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, Vocalo.org, Connecticut Public (WNPR), The Story, KRCB 104.9 and more
- Added: Dec 07, 2003
- Length: 12:59
- Purchases: 14
