Bring It On! – July 24, 2023: Lynchings in Indiana (Rebroadcast)

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Today’s broadcast originally aired on June 27, 2022:

In today’s edition of Bring It On!, hosts, Clarence Boone and Liz Mitchell spend the hour with Leon Bates, a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Pan-African Studies, at the University of Louisville, KY. He focuses on Urban History (i.e. Education, Housing, Labor, Medicine, Policing, Violence), and the Intersection of Race. Mr. Bates has conducted extensive research on Racialized Violence. In particular, he has focused on lynchings in Indiana.

Indiana has 21 official cases of reported lynching, and one lynching survivor, James Cameron, Jr. In the 1940s, he founded three chapters of the NAACP and later served as Indiana’s State Director of the Office of Civil Liberties. In 1988, he also founded America’s Black Holocaust Museum in Milwaukee. Cameron is the only known survivor of a lynching attempt in the United States.

Credits:
Today’s hosts are Clarence Boone and Liz Mitchell.
Bring It On’s Executive Producer is Clarence Boone.
Tonight’s Assistant Producer is Liz Mitchell.
The show Consultant and WFHB News Department Director is Kade Young.
Program Engineer is Chantalle LaFontant.
The original theme music was created by Jamyl Efiom with additional background tracks by David Baker.