The Ugliest Confederate Statue in the World: Jack Kershaw, Pt. 1

The Ugliest Confederate Statue in the World: Jack Kershaw, Pt. 1

Jack Kershaw created his most famous piece of art in his 80s. His lifelong passion for the arts had to take a backseat when he shifted his focus to becoming a professional racist during the fight against integration. He was doing it for his confederate ancestors, he would often say. But he was never very specific about who exactly his ancestors were...

The It Could Happen Here episode mentioned, originally aired 2/22/2024 -
https://open.spotify.com/episode/1ZQAqsxImsNGQUTzHGKhNp

Sources:

https://thesewaneepurple.org/2021/03/23/polk-sculpture-donated-by-white-supremacist-jack-kershaw/

https://thesewaneepurple.org/2021/03/22/polk-sculpture-removed-by-student-taken-to-archives/

https://meridiana.sewanee.edu/2022/04/30/a-year-later-a-letter-of-explanation/

https://www.moca.org/collection/work/unmanned-drone

https://religiondispatches.org/2025/10/28/swords-plowshares

https://www.sipcville.com/

https://www.vpm.org/news/2026-03-23/swords-into-plowshares-cville-jefferson-school-designs-hood-push-mass

https://www.vpm.org/news/2024-05-23/swords-into-plowshares-robert-e-lee-statue-charlottesville-centennial

https://www.npr.org/2021/02/23/970610428/nearly-100-confederate-monuments-removed-in-2020-report-says-more-than-700-remai

https://segregationinamerica.eji.org/report/confederate-icongraphy.html

https://wpln.org/post/even-as-statue-forrest-still-draws-fire/

https://www.upi.com/Archives/1982/03/30/Ray-says-lawyer-hid-Playboy-fee/1722386312400/

The Late Show With Stephen Colbert, August 2017
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvCjM1lPwg4

Last Week Tonight With John Oliver, October 2017
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J5b_-TZwQ0I

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Tämä jakso on lisätty Podme-palveluun avoimen RSS-syötteen kautta eikä se ole Podmen omaa tuotantoa. Siksi jakso saattaa sisältää mainontaa.

Jaksot(130)

Brown v Board of Education v The Pioneer Fund, Pt 2

Brown v Board of Education v The Pioneer Fund, Pt 2

In the decade after the Supreme Court's ruling in the Brown v Board of Education case, segregationists used every tool available to prevent integration. By the early 1960s, a group of Pioneer Fund-bac...

24 Syys 42min

Brown v Board of Education v The Pioneer Fund, Pt 1

Brown v Board of Education v The Pioneer Fund, Pt 1

Wickliffe Draper's Pioneer Fund started out in 1937 by funding screenings of Nazi propaganda films in high schools. But like most American racists, the 1954 Supreme Court decision in the Brown v Board...

17 Syys 42min

Death of a Demagogue (rewind)

Death of a Demagogue (rewind)

Sometimes when a weird little guy gets shot, the guy who killed him is just a weirder little guy. Original Air Date: 9/18/2025 Sources:Schmaltz, William H. (2000). Hate: George Lincoln Rockwell and t...

10 Syys 50min

An American Racist in Berlin

An American Racist in Berlin

In 1937, the heir to a textile manufacturing fortune established a charitable foundation to funnel money into disseminating propaganda produced in Nazi Germany. Since then, that fund has subsidized th...

3 Syys 43min

Race Scientists and the Human Zoo

Race Scientists and the Human Zoo

In 1904, men who believed in 'race science' put hundreds of people in a human zoo at the St. Louis world's fair. Today, those same racist, pseudoscientific views persist, and the men who hold them dem...

27 Elo 57min

Mississippi's Still Burning: Byron de la Beckwith Pt 7

Mississippi's Still Burning: Byron de la Beckwith Pt 7

In 1994, Byron de la Beckwith was finally convicted of murder for killing Medgar Evers in 1963. He died in prison, his story is over. But history repeats itself.Sources & Further Reading:Massengill, R...

20 Elo 51min

No Golf No Masters: Celebrating Our Ungovernable Peccary Friends

No Golf No Masters: Celebrating Our Ungovernable Peccary Friends

James talks with Molly Conger about the javelina and their installable appetite for golf courses. Sources: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=65x0RvhJNa8 https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2007/nov...

17 Elo 29min

The Fiery Cross: Byron de la Beckwith, Pt 6

The Fiery Cross: Byron de la Beckwith, Pt 6

In 1964, crosses burned all over Mississippi, signaling a return of the Ku Klux Klan. Their big debut was perfectly timed as a show of support for Byron de la Beckwith.Sources & Further Reading:Massen...

13 Elo 54min

Suosittua kategoriassa Yhteiskunta

olipa-kerran-otsikko
seitseman
siita-on-vaikea-puhua
i-dont-like-mondays
hupiklubi
uutiscast
download
poks
antin-palautepalvelu
sita
kaksi-aitia
rss-murhan-anatomia
yopuolen-tarinoita-2
vallattomat
mamma-mia
kolme-kaannekohtaa
gogin-ja-janin-maailmanhistoria
aikalisa
loukussa
rss-palmujen-varjoissa