Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 59:01 — 81.0MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreWhile today’s conversation centers on slavery’s influence during the forty years from the 1830s to the 1870s, we’re going to begin a bit prior to that with a journal entry by Benjamin Banneker who lived from 1731 to 1806 near Ellicott’s Mills, Maryland (now known as Ellicott …
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 59:00 — 81.0MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreBorn in poverty in rural Vermont, the Pennsylvania politician, Thaddeus Stevens, was among the first to see the Civil War as an opportunity for a second American revolution—a chance to remake the country as a true democracy which meant equal suffrage for all and more importantly the …
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 1:11 — 1.1MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreThe city of Bloomington and IU’s Juneteenth Celebration tonight is being moved indoors, after heavy rains and floods have swept through the listening area. The Juneteenth celebration is hosted by the City of Bloomington’s Safe and Civil City Program and the Indiana University Neal-Marshall Black Culture Center. …
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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 59:00 — 54.0MB)Subscribe: RSS | MorePart One: Hosts Clarence Boone and Roberta Radovich remember the legacy of Dr. James E. Mumford, the former, long time director of the IU African American Chorale Ensemble. They spend the majority of the hour speaking with Dr. Raymond Wise, the current director of the IU African …
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