Stay ConnectedA Black exploration of the deliberate creation of the whitest state in the nation.
This new podcast from Samuel James explores the Black history of Maine and the ties between national and local institutionalized racism.
Find resources and learn more at www.99yearspod.com
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In this season 1 finale, how communities get forgotten, racist campaign of fear and misinformation, a leader actually leads, the election results and a reminder from the past.
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Thomas Dixon, the “Southern Solution” to the “race problem”, the rise and fall and second rise of the KKK. Ghosts of the confederacy haunt Black Mainers as an election nears and perhaps an exorcism.
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A forgotten autocracy in the United States, a self-identified white nation, the grand dragon of the KKK in Maine and the incomprehensible breadth of what it is to be Black in America.
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Dred Scott, Black explorers, white supremacist bureaucrats: What happens when a people are condemned to repeat their past.
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The slogan for the state of Maine is, “the way life should be.” Known for lobsters and lighthouses, the state is also known for something else. Maine is the whitest state. And that’s not an accident.
The reason involves Presidents and robber barons, a forgotten time of Black American progress and a nation-wide conspiracy to help the south rise again.
But this isn’t just a chronicle of racial struggle or a tale of lost histories. It’s a story about black experience and what happens when people try to account for the past.
For resources and more, visit www.99yearspod.com
A Black exploration of the deliberate creation of the whitest state in the nation.
This new podcast from Samuel James explores the Black history of Maine and the ties between national and local institutionalized racism.
Find resources and learn more at www.99yearspod.com
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