PRX - Pieces for Topic: Historical
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History is made by the daily decisions of regular people. One family's story of the Great Migration.
- Added: Mar 07, 2024
- Length: 52:50
James McBride’s newest book is THE HEAVEN & EARTH GROCERY STORE, a novel about small-town secrets and the people who keep them.
As the s...
- Added: Aug 18, 2023
- Length: 10:05
Rev. Harry Blake came to StoryCorps to speak with his daughter Monica Mickle about how his experiences growing up the son of a sharecropper in Loui...
- Added: Jan 17, 2023
- Length: 02:44
Lana Cooper-Jones and Marla Cooper sit down at StoryCorps to remember their dad and his commitment to celebrating Juneteenth.
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Jun 20, 2022
- Length: 02:45
- Purchases: 1
Malinda Edwards talks to her sister Mildred Betts about the murder of her father, Willie Edwards Jr. at the hands of the Ku Klux Klan in 1957.
Bought by WYAP
- Added: Aug 10, 2021
- Length: 03:17
- Purchases: 1
An African American family that traces its roots back to Nancy Carter Quander, a woman who was enslaved by George and Martha Washington, talks abou...
Bought by WYAP
- Added: Aug 10, 2020
- Length: 02:31
- Purchases: 1
Vernon Dahmer was a successful farmer who fought for voting rights in the mid-1960s. His family recalls the night he was killed by the KKK.
Bought by Public Radio for All and WMUU-LP
- Added: Jan 23, 2017
- Length: 02:30
- Purchases: 2
Lauren Joichin Nile introduces her readers to some provocative ideas in her book RACE: My Story and Humanity’s Bottom Line. Her work delves deep in...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Nov 30, 2014
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
N’MPower participant, Marquell Hicks, interviews quilt artists Sharon Wirtz and Jane Gabaldon, in a community engagement project between the Museum...
- Added: Apr 09, 2014
- Length: 10:00
Radio Curious discusses interracial relationships with Harvard professor Randall Kennedy, author of “Interracial Intimacies: Sex, Marriage, Identit...
Bought by WFHB
- Added: Jan 21, 2014
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Charlie Morris remembers his brother's death in 1939, with his cousin Sylvester Lewis.
- Added: Oct 16, 2012
- Length: 01:46
- Purchases: 2