PRX - Pieces for Topic: Historical
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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
From: James Szkobel-Wolff
Sangar General Store, in Windsor, MA, is owned by Prem Sangar. Prem wasn't born in Windsor and doesn't quite fit the mold of the town, but the comm...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Nov 29, 2018
- Length: 04:55
- Purchases: 1
Charisse Spencer tells her teenage son Myles what it was like integrating her elementary school in Norfolk, Virginia in the 1960s.
Bought by WEZU
- Added: May 17, 2018
- Length: 02:41
- Purchases: 1
A short Memorial Day affirmation from WWII veteran, Atilano Bernardo David, describes shares his wisdom on resilience after surviving war and the B...
- Added: May 16, 2018
- Length: 01:51
Vincent Chin was a 27-year-old draftsman living near Detroit. On a June night in 1982, he and a group of friends went out to celebrate his wedding,...
Bought by Allegheny Mountain Radio and WEZU
- Added: Jul 05, 2017
- Length: 02:06
- Purchases: 2
In this special StoryCorps production, Joel Tucker and his friend Gordon Blake share Joel’s experiences following an anti-LGBTQ incident from 2000.
- Added: Jul 11, 2016
- Length: 02:34
- Purchases: 2
Marrying the person you love is the ideal, right? So what happens when you finally get to do that, only to have the government tell you, never mind...
Bought by WJCT
- Added: Jul 06, 2016
- Length: 31:17
- Purchases: 1
For Yom HaShoah, stories of Israeli encounters with the Holocaust in the years and decades after it ended.
- Added: May 25, 2016
- Length: 48:42
We visit the Lower 9th Ward Living Museum, to learn how some are trying to preserve the lessons and legacies of the past. And we talk to a residen...
Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio
- Added: Aug 03, 2015
- Length: 13:31
- Purchases: 1
Charmil Davis talking to the US Congress from New Jersey Donald Payne Jr.
- Added: Jun 09, 2013
- Length: 09:40
Ruben Aguilar tells his friend Bill Luna about his family's deportation as part of the Mexican Repatriation Program in 1933.
Bought by WEZU
- Added: Apr 08, 2013
- Length: 02:01
- Purchases: 1
Harrison Wright tells his grandson, Sean Guess, about serving in the Army at the end of World War II.
Bought by WEZU
- Added: May 25, 2012
- Length: 01:56
- Purchases: 1
Womemories Host Bernadette Cahill talks with Shelley Graff
- Added: Apr 18, 2007
- Length: 09:59
MIT Freshmen travel to Valdivia, Chile, and report on three stories of survival they have found there: ecological survival, cultural survival, and ...
- Added: Jun 12, 2006
- Length: 23:26
A college freshman travels to Chile and interviews survivors of the 1960 tsunami/earthquake.
Bought by WXLV-FM
- Added: Jun 12, 2006
- Length: 09:38
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Jun 07, 2005
- Length: 04:14
- Purchases: 1
They were called "Construction Guides" : friendly co-eds in mini-skirted uniforms posted at corner kiosks on the WTC site to inform an inquiring pu...
Bought by Marfa Public Radio, WHYY, and KUOW
- Added: Sep 09, 2004
- Length: 22:18
- Purchases: 3
