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New economic research reveals how difficult it is for some people to gain wealth in America, even when they do everything right.
- Added: Oct 09, 2018
- Length: 03:08
TriPod: New Orleans at 300 returns with a retrospective look at Mardi Gras, and the year that carnival took place in the dark. Hear the TriPod Xtra...
- Added: Oct 24, 2017
- Length: 12:02
Tripod Xtras feature one on one interviews with special guests. This week’s TriPod episode focuses on Mardi Gras 1946 and the strike of the flambea...
- Added: Oct 24, 2017
- Length: 23:25
From: BackStory with the American History Guys
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Favorites
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Favorites
Historian Gregg Kimball tells host Ed Ayers about the phenomenon of “hiring out” enslaved persons prior to the Civil War, and how this introduced s...
Bought by Radio Newark
- Added: Mar 31, 2014
- Length: 08:09
- Purchases: 1
From: BackStory with the American History Guys
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Favorites
Series: BackStory with the American History Guys: Favorites
Host Ed Ayers talks with historian Karin Shapiro about the convict leasing arrangements of the 1890s that led to labor disputes with free workers, ...
Bought by WDBM, KFAI Minneapolis, and Radio Newark
- Added: Mar 31, 2014
- Length: 09:31
- Purchases: 3
Between Civil War and Civil Rights -1: How the South (or White Supremacy?) Won the War (1865 - 1877)
From: Alan LipkeSeries: Between Civil War and Civil Rights
From the founding of the Ku Klux Klan by ex-Confederate officers, through the defeat of Reconstruction: How history is made and remade, with histor...
- Added: May 05, 2009
- Length: 58:19
- Purchases: 3
Studs Terkel reads excerpts from Upton Sinclair's novel "The Jungle" in this history of African Americans in the packinghouse industry of Chicago.
Bought by WFHB, WORT, Spokane Public Radio, KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., KVSC and more
- Added: Nov 04, 2008
- Length: 28:21
- Purchases: 12
The pioneering Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters played a major role in the struggle of African Americans for equal rights.
Bought by RadioStPete Florida, WDBM, and WEZU
- Added: Jan 27, 2008
- Length: 03:46
- Purchases: 3
Some of Martin Luther King Jr.'s Most important work was done in behalf of the labor movement.
Bought by WGHC-LP 98.3 FM Chicago, KPFT, and WYSO
- Added: Jan 12, 2005
- Length: 02:23
- Purchases: 3
The story of the worst homefront disaster of World War II -- an ammunition explosion that killed more than 300 men -- and what happened to the 50 A...
Bought by RadioStPete Florida, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, KVMR, WORT, KVNF and more
- Added: Sep 03, 2004
- Length: 25:12
- Purchases: 26
