Tag: Buried Truths

Listened to "Buried Truths" Pistols (Season 1, Episode 1) by Hank Klibanoff from NPR

Cover art for Buried Truths from WABE/NPR featuring a brown toned blurry/digitized image of an unidentified African American man superimposed with the title of the show so as to disguise the person's identity.

After Primus King, a black barber and pastor, successfully sued the Democratic Party for denying his right to vote on the grounds of race and color, three-term Georgia Governor Eugene Talmadge declared, "This is a white man's country and we must keep it so." The best way to do so: "Pistols."

Listened to "Buried Truths" Fall, Isaiah, Fall (Season 1, Episode 2) by Hank Klibanoff from NPR

Cover art for Buried Truths from WABE/NPR featuring a brown toned blurry/digitized image of an unidentified African American man superimposed with the title of the show so as to disguise the person's identity.

Election day is usually a grand occasion for a small town like Alston, GA. For the white people in town, September 8, 1948, marked a day of good ole traditions and community. But for black voters, it became a place of opportunity...and defiance.