Podcast appearances and mentions of John Howard Griffin

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Hugh Turley is the co-author with David Martin of the first most thoroughly researched books about the assassination of the internationally revered American Catholic monk, pioneer in interfaith dialogue and anti-war and human rights activist Father Thomas Merton. Merton was also a prolific writer and poet, mostly on spiritual subjects-- perhaps the most important Catholic author in the 20th century. For over a decade Hugh has been following the clues leading to the murder of Father Merton 56 years ago in Bangkok Thailand on December 10th 1968 -- the same year as the assassinations of Robert Kennedy and Merton's friend and fellow civil rights activist Martin Luther King. His research has resulted in two publications "The Martyrdom of Thomas Merton" in 2018 and a follow up book last year "Thomas Merton's Betrayers: The case against Abbot James Fox and author John Howard Griffin". He also had a major investigative role in the publication of "The Murder of Vince Foster: America's Would-Be Dreyfus Affair". Hugh is  a volunteer columnist for the Hyattsville Life and Times, a winner of the National Newspaper Association award for best serious column, small circulation, and his day job is as a professional stage magician in the Washington DC area. His website is TheMartyrdomOfThomasMerton.com

Send us a textYou ever go a little too far with your good intentions?  John did.  And hoo boy is it a doozy.  Come cringe with us as we discuss the man who lived undercover in the Deep South in the worst way possible and his resulting novel, "Black Like Me", John Howard Griffin!

Thomas Merton's Betrayers: The case against Abbot James Fox and author John Howard Griffin with Author Hugh Turley. Author Website: https://www.themartyrdomofthomasmerton.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Dee and Kate celebrate Black History Month by delving into the life of John Howard Griffin, a journalist who darkened his skin to temporarily pass as a black man and journey through the Deep South in order to see life and segregation from the other side of the color line. Shelly calls in about an...

As the Holiday season starts up, we turn towards a classic, and one we've been low-key avoiding. But the time has finally come for us to watch one of the craziest movies we've seen so far, 1964's Black Like Me.   We're joined by friend of the show Dare Johnson to talk about a movie where a white man pretends to be Black to see "what it's like." If that wasn't bad enough, it's based on a real experiment done by journalist John Howard Griffin.  We've got a lot to talk about with this one, including how not one Black person called him out for obviously being a white man, how no Black person knew he was a white man, and how not one damn Black person said, "ain't you a white man"?  As we get ready to close out 2023, we just want to say how much we appreciate you all and we hope you're able to wind down and spend some quality time with those you love. Times are rough, so be sure to hold on to the good things.  You can find Dare @badicaldude, and hit us up at @white_pod on Twitter and at whitepeoplewontsaveyoupod@gmail.com to let us know what you thought of this one and what we should watch in 2024. We'll be back in two weeks with Spike Lee produced, Son of the South. 

Hugh Turley - Thomas Merton Betrayed - The case against Abbot James Fox and author John Howard GriffinHugh Turley returns to discuss more revelations concerning the assassination of Thomas Merton in 1968.The secret assassination of Thomas Merton and its subsequent cover-up required planning. For over fifty years, the U.S. government and the leadership of Merton's home abbey of Our Lady of Gethsemani were able to perpetuate a virtually transparent lie concerning his death. They were abetted, unfortunately, by the Catholic Church, the Catholic press, and Catholic academia, along with the press and scholarly world generally.Thomas Merton's Betrayers: The Case against Abbot James Fox and Author John Howard Griffin focuses upon that long-successful lie about the cause of Merton's death in Thailand in 1968, that is, that he was electrocuted by a faulty fan. How did it become so widely accepted? It was not the official conclusion reached by the investigating authorities, the Thai police, who concluded that Merton had died of “heart failure,” although they did make mention of a fan that they said had a faulty wire installed and could have killed him had he not been dead already when he encountered it.He tells Ed Opperman about the book and the events it catalogues and why, in many ways, Merton's killing was even more sinister than RFK and MLK, which happened in the same year.Book : Thomas MertonThis show is part of the Spreaker Prime Network, if you are interested in advertising on this podcast, contact us at https://www.spreaker.com/show/1198501/advertisement

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The dangerous, trailblazing work of a white journalist and black leader who struck a shocking early blow against legal segregation In 1948, most white people in the North had no idea how unjust and unequal daily life was for 10 million African Americans living in the Jim Crow South. Then, Ray Sprigle, a famous white journalist from Pittsburgh, went undercover and alongside Atlanta s black civil rights pioneer John Wesley Dobbs lived as a black man in the South for thirty days. His impassioned newspaper series shocked millions and sparked the first nationally aired television-and-radio debate about ending America s shameful system of apartheid.  With 30 Days a Black Man: The Forgotten Story That Exposed the Jim Crow South (Lyons Press, 2017), author Bill Steigerwald returns this long-forgotten part of American history to its rightful place among the seminal events of the Civil Rights movement. For 30 days and 3,000 miles, Sprigle and Dobbs traveled among dirt-poor sharecroppers, principals of ramshackle black schools, and families of lynching victims. The nationally syndicated newspaper series hit the media like an atom bomb, eliciting a fierce response from the Southern media. Six years before Brown v. Board of Education, seven years before the murder of Emmett Till, eight years before Little Rock s Central High School was integrated, and thirteen years before John Howard Griffin s similar experiment became the bestselling Black Like Me, an unlikely pair of heroes brought black lives to the forefront of American consciousness. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/african-american-studies

The dangerous, trailblazing work of a white journalist and black leader who struck a shocking early blow against legal segregation In 1948, most white people in the North had no idea how unjust and unequal daily life was for 10 million African Americans living in the Jim Crow South. Then, Ray Sprigle, a famous white journalist from Pittsburgh, went undercover and alongside Atlanta s black civil rights pioneer John Wesley Dobbs lived as a black man in the South for thirty days. His impassioned newspaper series shocked millions and sparked the first nationally aired television-and-radio debate about ending America s shameful system of apartheid.  With 30 Days a Black Man: The Forgotten Story That Exposed the Jim Crow South (Lyons Press, 2017), author Bill Steigerwald returns this long-forgotten part of American history to its rightful place among the seminal events of the Civil Rights movement. For 30 days and 3,000 miles, Sprigle and Dobbs traveled among dirt-poor sharecroppers, principals of ramshackle black schools, and families of lynching victims. The nationally syndicated newspaper series hit the media like an atom bomb, eliciting a fierce response from the Southern media. Six years before Brown v. Board of Education, seven years before the murder of Emmett Till, eight years before Little Rock s Central High School was integrated, and thirteen years before John Howard Griffin s similar experiment became the bestselling Black Like Me, an unlikely pair of heroes brought black lives to the forefront of American consciousness. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

The dangerous, trailblazing work of a white journalist and black leader who struck a shocking early blow against legal segregation In 1948, most white people in the North had no idea how unjust and unequal daily life was for 10 million African Americans living in the Jim Crow South. Then, Ray Sprigle, a famous white journalist from Pittsburgh, went undercover and alongside Atlanta s black civil rights pioneer John Wesley Dobbs lived as a black man in the South for thirty days. His impassioned newspaper series shocked millions and sparked the first nationally aired television-and-radio debate about ending America s shameful system of apartheid.  With 30 Days a Black Man: The Forgotten Story That Exposed the Jim Crow South (Lyons Press, 2017), author Bill Steigerwald returns this long-forgotten part of American history to its rightful place among the seminal events of the Civil Rights movement. For 30 days and 3,000 miles, Sprigle and Dobbs traveled among dirt-poor sharecroppers, principals of ramshackle black schools, and families of lynching victims. The nationally syndicated newspaper series hit the media like an atom bomb, eliciting a fierce response from the Southern media. Six years before Brown v. Board of Education, seven years before the murder of Emmett Till, eight years before Little Rock s Central High School was integrated, and thirteen years before John Howard Griffin s similar experiment became the bestselling Black Like Me, an unlikely pair of heroes brought black lives to the forefront of American consciousness. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/history

The dangerous, trailblazing work of a white journalist and black leader who struck a shocking early blow against legal segregation In 1948, most white people in the North had no idea how unjust and unequal daily life was for 10 million African Americans living in the Jim Crow South. Then, Ray Sprigle, a famous white journalist from Pittsburgh, went undercover and alongside Atlanta s black civil rights pioneer John Wesley Dobbs lived as a black man in the South for thirty days. His impassioned newspaper series shocked millions and sparked the first nationally aired television-and-radio debate about ending America s shameful system of apartheid.  With 30 Days a Black Man: The Forgotten Story That Exposed the Jim Crow South (Lyons Press, 2017), author Bill Steigerwald returns this long-forgotten part of American history to its rightful place among the seminal events of the Civil Rights movement. For 30 days and 3,000 miles, Sprigle and Dobbs traveled among dirt-poor sharecroppers, principals of ramshackle black schools, and families of lynching victims. The nationally syndicated newspaper series hit the media like an atom bomb, eliciting a fierce response from the Southern media. Six years before Brown v. Board of Education, seven years before the murder of Emmett Till, eight years before Little Rock s Central High School was integrated, and thirteen years before John Howard Griffin s similar experiment became the bestselling Black Like Me, an unlikely pair of heroes brought black lives to the forefront of American consciousness. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/biography

The dangerous, trailblazing work of a white journalist and black leader who struck a shocking early blow against legal segregation In 1948, most white people in the North had no idea how unjust and unequal daily life was for 10 million African Americans living in the Jim Crow South. Then, Ray Sprigle, a famous white journalist from Pittsburgh, went undercover and alongside Atlanta s black civil rights pioneer John Wesley Dobbs lived as a black man in the South for thirty days. His impassioned newspaper series shocked millions and sparked the first nationally aired television-and-radio debate about ending America s shameful system of apartheid.  With 30 Days a Black Man: The Forgotten Story That Exposed the Jim Crow South (Lyons Press, 2017), author Bill Steigerwald returns this long-forgotten part of American history to its rightful place among the seminal events of the Civil Rights movement. For 30 days and 3,000 miles, Sprigle and Dobbs traveled among dirt-poor sharecroppers, principals of ramshackle black schools, and families of lynching victims. The nationally syndicated newspaper series hit the media like an atom bomb, eliciting a fierce response from the Southern media. Six years before Brown v. Board of Education, seven years before the murder of Emmett Till, eight years before Little Rock s Central High School was integrated, and thirteen years before John Howard Griffin s similar experiment became the bestselling Black Like Me, an unlikely pair of heroes brought black lives to the forefront of American consciousness. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/american-studies

The dangerous, trailblazing work of a white journalist and black leader who struck a shocking early blow against legal segregation In 1948, most white people in the North had no idea how unjust and unequal daily life was for 10 million African Americans living in the Jim Crow South. Then, Ray Sprigle, a famous white journalist from Pittsburgh, went undercover and alongside Atlanta s black civil rights pioneer John Wesley Dobbs lived as a black man in the South for thirty days. His impassioned newspaper series shocked millions and sparked the first nationally aired television-and-radio debate about ending America s shameful system of apartheid.  With 30 Days a Black Man: The Forgotten Story That Exposed the Jim Crow South (Lyons Press, 2017), author Bill Steigerwald returns this long-forgotten part of American history to its rightful place among the seminal events of the Civil Rights movement. For 30 days and 3,000 miles, Sprigle and Dobbs traveled among dirt-poor sharecroppers, principals of ramshackle black schools, and families of lynching victims. The nationally syndicated newspaper series hit the media like an atom bomb, eliciting a fierce response from the Southern media. Six years before Brown v. Board of Education, seven years before the murder of Emmett Till, eight years before Little Rock s Central High School was integrated, and thirteen years before John Howard Griffin s similar experiment became the bestselling Black Like Me, an unlikely pair of heroes brought black lives to the forefront of American consciousness. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/journalism

The dangerous, trailblazing work of a white journalist and black leader who struck a shocking early blow against legal segregation In 1948, most white people in the North had no idea how unjust and unequal daily life was for 10 million African Americans living in the Jim Crow South. Then, Ray Sprigle, a famous white journalist from Pittsburgh, went undercover and alongside Atlanta s black civil rights pioneer John Wesley Dobbs lived as a black man in the South for thirty days. His impassioned newspaper series shocked millions and sparked the first nationally aired television-and-radio debate about ending America s shameful system of apartheid.  With 30 Days a Black Man: The Forgotten Story That Exposed the Jim Crow South (Lyons Press, 2017), author Bill Steigerwald returns this long-forgotten part of American history to its rightful place among the seminal events of the Civil Rights movement. For 30 days and 3,000 miles, Sprigle and Dobbs traveled among dirt-poor sharecroppers, principals of ramshackle black schools, and families of lynching victims. The nationally syndicated newspaper series hit the media like an atom bomb, eliciting a fierce response from the Southern media. Six years before Brown v. Board of Education, seven years before the murder of Emmett Till, eight years before Little Rock s Central High School was integrated, and thirteen years before John Howard Griffin s similar experiment became the bestselling Black Like Me, an unlikely pair of heroes brought black lives to the forefront of American consciousness. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/american-south

The dangerous, trailblazing work of a white journalist and black leader who struck a shocking early blow against legal segregation In 1948, most white people in the North had no idea how unjust and unequal daily life was for 10 million African Americans living in the Jim Crow South. Then, Ray Sprigle, a famous white journalist from Pittsburgh, went undercover and alongside Atlanta s black civil rights pioneer John Wesley Dobbs lived as a black man in the South for thirty days. His impassioned newspaper series shocked millions and sparked the first nationally aired television-and-radio debate about ending America s shameful system of apartheid.  With 30 Days a Black Man: The Forgotten Story That Exposed the Jim Crow South (Lyons Press, 2017), author Bill Steigerwald returns this long-forgotten part of American history to its rightful place among the seminal events of the Civil Rights movement. For 30 days and 3,000 miles, Sprigle and Dobbs traveled among dirt-poor sharecroppers, principals of ramshackle black schools, and families of lynching victims. The nationally syndicated newspaper series hit the media like an atom bomb, eliciting a fierce response from the Southern media. Six years before Brown v. Board of Education, seven years before the murder of Emmett Till, eight years before Little Rock s Central High School was integrated, and thirteen years before John Howard Griffin s similar experiment became the bestselling Black Like Me, an unlikely pair of heroes brought black lives to the forefront of American consciousness. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/book-of-the-day

In 1947 a Norwegian became curious if it was possible for the natives of South America to have drifted on a raft 4,300 miles across the Pacific ocean to populate the islands of Polynesia.The question of who populated Polynesia wasn't really important to anyone but Thor Heyerdahl.He opened his bestselling book in 1950 with these words,“Once in a while you find yourself in an odd situation. You get into it by degrees and in the most natural way but, when you are right in the midst of it, you are suddenly astonished and ask yourself how in the world it all came about. If, for example, you put to sea on a wooden raft with a parrot and five companions, it is inevitable that sooner or later you will wake up one morning out at sea, perhaps a little better rested than ordinarily, and begin to think about it. On one such morning I sat writing in a dew-drenched logbook…”DNA evidence later proved Heyerdahl's theory to be incorrect. Today we know for certain that Polynesia was not populated by South Americans, but by Asians.But I still like Thor Heyerdahl. He wanted to know if South Americans could have made that journey, so he built a raft using only the tools and materials available in prehistoric times, pushed away from the soft safety of the shore, and had himself a wonderful adventure.We don't do that sort of thing anymore, but I wish we did.We no longer set out to experience – with an open mind – the lives of persons who are different than us. We are no longer willing “to walk a mile in their shoes” so that we might better understand them. What we do instead is look for evidence that our own perspective is correct and that all the others are wrong. We are assisted in this unholy endeavor by algorithms on the internet and one-sided news organizations that tell us exactly what we want to hear.I like Thor Heyerdahl and I like John Howard Griffin.Like me, John Howard Griffin was born in Dallas, Texas, but he got there 38 years before I arrived.Two years before America entered World War II, 19-year-old John Howard Griffin joined the French Resistance as a medic and helped smuggle Austrian Jews to safety and freedom in England. When America officially entered that war, Griffin served the United States Army in the South Pacific where he was decorated for bravery.Keep that characteristic in mind: bravery.While serving in the Solomon islands, Griffin contracted spinal malaria that left him temporarily paraplegic. And then the concussion of a Japanese bomb caused him to become blind. Eleven years later, in 1957, his eyesight inexplicably returned and that's when the real adventure began.America was now at war with itself. The battle over civil rights was a whistling teapot on a fiery stove, so John Howard Griffin shaved his head in order to hide his straight hair, took large doses of Oxsoralen in 1959 to darken his skin, then spent six weeks traveling as a black man in the Deep South. He started in new New Orleans, then visited Mississippi, South Carolina, and Georgia, getting around mainly by hitchhiking.When I was young, I read John Howard Griffin's book about his experiences as a black man, and it felt to me like an honest and straightforward diary. A lot of other people felt differently, of course, so the Ku Klux Klan beat him nearly to death in 1975.And so it goes.*Evidently, it is safer to drift 4,300 miles across the Pacific in a prehistoric raft than it is to talk about race in America.Roy H. Williams*I wrote those 4 words – Kurt Vonnegut's signature line – because I heard him say it in my mind after I wrote the preceding sentence.Clay Stafford produces an annual conference that brings together authors, agents, exhibitors, and fans of crime and thriller literature. And he's been doing it for 17 years. To pull off a large meeting, workshop, or other live event in the post-COVID-19 era requires...

This week Cassie takes another back seat and lets Sam drive! He brings us the story of the life and times of John Howard Griffin. A complicated man with a unique approach to bridging the racial divide in the early 60's. You can now see our adorable faces on our YouTube page: Get This Sh*t! - @GTS_podcast   Get That Shit! Rosalie Body Works https://rosaliebodyworks.com/   IG & TT: @rosaliebodyworks   Rosalie Body Works is all handmade lotion candles located in Palm Springs, FL. Always searching for the highest quality ingredients. Rosalie's is obsessed with product versatility. They're on a mission to see how many uses a single product can have! It's up to 23!!!  These beautiful candles are not only versatile in the uses but in scent, and container. Each candle is in a beautiful teacup or kettle! They range in price from $15-$100!  A fun few uses for these beauties are wax play, all over body lotion, witchcraft, makeup remover, stretch marks!

“I have closed novels and stared at their back covers for a long moment and felt known in a way I cannot honestly say I have felt known by many real-life interactions with human beings, or even by myself.” ~ Zadie Smith On this week's episode of Real Ballers Read, we dive into one of the most thought-provoking essays by the brilliant Zadie Smith, “Fascinated to Presume: In Defense of Fiction”. Here's a fun contribution to the conversation started by @booksarepopculture on Black bookstagram's preference for fiction or nonfiction. What's your go-to genre?? The bros got a whole *concept map* of all the connections we made to Zadie Smith's essay. This was a fun conversation that somehow covered bell hooks, Toni Morrison, Captain Underpants and the new culture wars in the same episode. Tune in wherever you listen to podcasts. . . . 2:57 The Story Behind this episode 7:42 The first paragraph of “Fascinated to Presume” 9:24 Having fluid or “inconsistent” personalities 10:56 Ways we've felt more secure 12:26 Relating to fictional characters 13:34 To Kill A Mockingbird 16:05 Your Blues Ain't Like Mine 19:36 Feeling seen by people vs. books 21:52 What happens to people when the news cameras leave? 23:47 The Dance of Human Interaction and its absence in reading 26:27 Trick Mirror 28:16 The Potential for Radical Change 32:44 American Dirt 38:02 Is it irresponsible to write from someone else's point of view? 42:10 What does harm mean in a literary sense? 46:41 Trigger warnings at the start of books? 47:31 Sisters of the Yam by bell hooks 52:18 Stanley Crouch 54:16 John Howard Griffin and Black Like Me 55:45 Limits of empathy 57:38 The illusion of the self 59:30 Reading as a writer vs. as a casual reader 1:01 Consumerism as an identity 1:06 The Reader decides to believe or not 1:07 What we want from good fiction 1:14 Difference between acting and writing 1:16 Cultural Appropriation as a verbal container 1:23 Does this essay convince us to read more classics? 1:31 Hector Abad quote --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/realballersread/support

Pour écouter le podcast "Dodo, sons de la nature et bruit blanc":Apple Podcast:https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/dodo/id1609342835Spotify:https://open.spotify.com/show/5Y9yr2NlSPEX7mPbNiEWIfDeezer:https://deezer.page.link/v9kNaNjzDEjE1jfq9Google Podcast:https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5hY2FzdC5jb20vcHVibGljL3Nob3dzL2RvZG8tZGVzLW1vdHMtcG91ci1zZW5kb3JtaXI?ep=14-----------------------------------------John Howard Griffin naît en 1920 aux États-Unis. Il étudie le français et la médecine, et s'intéresse à la psychiatrie. Durant la Seconde Guerre mondiale, il se trouve en France, où il travaille un temps dans un hôpital psychiatrique.Blessé par un éclat d'obus, qui le rend alors aveugle, il rentre en Amérique, où son goût de l'étude le reprend. Il se passionne alors pour la philosophie et la théologie. Il travaille d'autant mieux qu'il recouvre la vue en 1957.C'est alors que John Howard Griffin conçoit un projet original. Il veut se faire passer pour un Noir, afin de mieux se rendre compte des conditions de vie des gens de couleur.Durant la guerre, où il a aidé des Juifs à fuir le nazisme, il a déjà fait l'expérience du racisme et de l'oppression.Une immersion dans la communauté noireDéjà préoccupé par le sort des Noirs, Griffin s'était alarmé des nombreux suicides qui décimaient leur communauté. Mais pour vraiment mesurer la condition des Noirs, il fallait voir par leurs propres yeux. Il fallait "devenir" un Noir.C'est pourquoi Griffin suit un traitement à base de rayons ultraviolets, qui brunit sa peau. En 1959, il se rend alors dans des États du sud, comme la Louisiane ou le Mississipi, où la ségrégation raciale est une réalité quotidienne.Devenant cireur de chaussures, durant un temps, il est traité avec mépris. Des gens qu'il connaissait, et qui ne le reconnaissent pas, le regardent avec dédain et animosité.Griffin observe ce qui se passe autour de lui et décrit les conditions de vie lamentables des Noirs, mal nourris, privés de droits et souvent de travail. Il est aussi frappé par la solidarité qui les unit.John Howard Griffin revient chez lui en décembre 1959. Sa peau retrouve peu à peu sa teinte naturelle. En 1961, il publie un livre, "Dans la peau d'un Noir", où il relate son expérience.Il reçoit alors des menaces de la part de certains milieux, tandis que des activistes noirs lui reprochent sa prétention de parler au nom de leur communauté. Hébergé par Acast. Visitez acast.com/privacy pour plus d'informations.

Pour écouter le podcast "Dodo, sons de la nature et bruit blanc": Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/dodo/id1609342835 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5Y9yr2NlSPEX7mPbNiEWIf Deezer: https://deezer.page.link/v9kNaNjzDEjE1jfq9 Google Podcast: https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5hY2FzdC5jb20vcHVibGljL3Nob3dzL2RvZG8tZGVzLW1vdHMtcG91ci1zZW5kb3JtaXI?ep=14 ----------------------------------------- John Howard Griffin naît en 1920 aux États-Unis. Il étudie le français et la médecine, et s'intéresse à la psychiatrie. Durant la Seconde Guerre mondiale, il se trouve en France, où il travaille un temps dans un hôpital psychiatrique. Blessé par un éclat d'obus, qui le rend alors aveugle, il rentre en Amérique, où son goût de l'étude le reprend. Il se passionne alors pour la philosophie et la théologie. Il travaille d'autant mieux qu'il recouvre la vue en 1957. C'est alors que John Howard Griffin conçoit un projet original. Il veut se faire passer pour un Noir, afin de mieux se rendre compte des conditions de vie des gens de couleur. Durant la guerre, où il a aidé des Juifs à fuir le nazisme, il a déjà fait l'expérience du racisme et de l'oppression. Une immersion dans la communauté noire Déjà préoccupé par le sort des Noirs, Griffin s'était alarmé des nombreux suicides qui décimaient leur communauté. Mais pour vraiment mesurer la condition des Noirs, il fallait voir par leurs propres yeux. Il fallait "devenir" un Noir. C'est pourquoi Griffin suit un traitement à base de rayons ultraviolets, qui brunit sa peau. En 1959, il se rend alors dans des États du sud, comme la Louisiane ou le Mississipi, où la ségrégation raciale est une réalité quotidienne. Devenant cireur de chaussures, durant un temps, il est traité avec mépris. Des gens qu'il connaissait, et qui ne le reconnaissent pas, le regardent avec dédain et animosité. Griffin observe ce qui se passe autour de lui et décrit les conditions de vie lamentables des Noirs, mal nourris, privés de droits et souvent de travail. Il est aussi frappé par la solidarité qui les unit. John Howard Griffin revient chez lui en décembre 1959. Sa peau retrouve peu à peu sa teinte naturelle. En 1961, il publie un livre, "Dans la peau d'un Noir", où il relate son expérience. Il reçoit alors des menaces de la part de certains milieux, tandis que des activistes noirs lui reprochent sa prétention de parler au nom de leur communauté. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Black Like Me is written by journalist John Howard Griffin in the Mid-20th Century. It is his account of what it felt like to be both a white and a black American in the same parts of the United States. After darkening his white skin using medication and UV light, Griffin roamed the streets of Louisiana, Alabama, Mississippi and Georgia seeing how differently the world treated black men. While speaking to people, he found the resounding difference between how the world treated him first as a black man and then (after he stopped taking the medication) as a white man. The importance of a novel like this can not be overstated. It is an honest and deep look at the account of the 'Deep South' in a time when racism was more common than not. Furthermore, it's a reflection on how unaware the average American was of the importance of this in their community. Join us as we discuss the importance of this novel and what we thought of this brilliant book's ideas.

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What if, Joseph Darda asks, our desire to solve racism--with science, civil rights, antiracist literature, integration, and color blindness--has entrenched it further? In The Strange Career of Racial Liberalism (Stanford UP, 2022), he traces the rise of liberal antiracism, showing how reformers' faith in time, in the moral arc of the universe, has undercut future movements with the insistence that racism constitutes a time-limited crisis to be solved with time-limited remedies. Most historians attribute the shortcomings of the civil rights era to a conservative backlash or to the fracturing of the liberal establishment in the late 1960s, but the civil rights movement also faced resistance from a liberal "frontlash," from antiredistributive allies who, before it ever took off, constrained what the movement could demand and how it could demand it. Telling the stories of Ruth Benedict, Kenneth Clark, W. E. B. Du Bois, John Howard Griffin, Pauli Murray, Lillian Smith, Richard Wright, and others, Darda reveals how Americans learned to wait on time for racial change and the enduring harm of that trust in the clock. Brittney Edmonds is an Assistant Professor of Afro-American Studies at UW-Madison. I specialize in 20th and 21st century African American Literature and Culture with a special interest in Black Humor Studies. Read more about my work at brittneymichelleedmonds.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/african-american-studies

What if, Joseph Darda asks, our desire to solve racism--with science, civil rights, antiracist literature, integration, and color blindness--has entrenched it further? In The Strange Career of Racial Liberalism (Stanford UP, 2022), he traces the rise of liberal antiracism, showing how reformers' faith in time, in the moral arc of the universe, has undercut future movements with the insistence that racism constitutes a time-limited crisis to be solved with time-limited remedies. Most historians attribute the shortcomings of the civil rights era to a conservative backlash or to the fracturing of the liberal establishment in the late 1960s, but the civil rights movement also faced resistance from a liberal "frontlash," from antiredistributive allies who, before it ever took off, constrained what the movement could demand and how it could demand it. Telling the stories of Ruth Benedict, Kenneth Clark, W. E. B. Du Bois, John Howard Griffin, Pauli Murray, Lillian Smith, Richard Wright, and others, Darda reveals how Americans learned to wait on time for racial change and the enduring harm of that trust in the clock. Brittney Edmonds is an Assistant Professor of Afro-American Studies at UW-Madison. I specialize in 20th and 21st century African American Literature and Culture with a special interest in Black Humor Studies. Read more about my work at brittneymichelleedmonds.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/history

What if, Joseph Darda asks, our desire to solve racism--with science, civil rights, antiracist literature, integration, and color blindness--has entrenched it further? In The Strange Career of Racial Liberalism (Stanford UP, 2022), he traces the rise of liberal antiracism, showing how reformers' faith in time, in the moral arc of the universe, has undercut future movements with the insistence that racism constitutes a time-limited crisis to be solved with time-limited remedies. Most historians attribute the shortcomings of the civil rights era to a conservative backlash or to the fracturing of the liberal establishment in the late 1960s, but the civil rights movement also faced resistance from a liberal "frontlash," from antiredistributive allies who, before it ever took off, constrained what the movement could demand and how it could demand it. Telling the stories of Ruth Benedict, Kenneth Clark, W. E. B. Du Bois, John Howard Griffin, Pauli Murray, Lillian Smith, Richard Wright, and others, Darda reveals how Americans learned to wait on time for racial change and the enduring harm of that trust in the clock. Brittney Edmonds is an Assistant Professor of Afro-American Studies at UW-Madison. I specialize in 20th and 21st century African American Literature and Culture with a special interest in Black Humor Studies. Read more about my work at brittneymichelleedmonds.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/political-science

What if, Joseph Darda asks, our desire to solve racism--with science, civil rights, antiracist literature, integration, and color blindness--has entrenched it further? In The Strange Career of Racial Liberalism (Stanford UP, 2022), he traces the rise of liberal antiracism, showing how reformers' faith in time, in the moral arc of the universe, has undercut future movements with the insistence that racism constitutes a time-limited crisis to be solved with time-limited remedies. Most historians attribute the shortcomings of the civil rights era to a conservative backlash or to the fracturing of the liberal establishment in the late 1960s, but the civil rights movement also faced resistance from a liberal "frontlash," from antiredistributive allies who, before it ever took off, constrained what the movement could demand and how it could demand it. Telling the stories of Ruth Benedict, Kenneth Clark, W. E. B. Du Bois, John Howard Griffin, Pauli Murray, Lillian Smith, Richard Wright, and others, Darda reveals how Americans learned to wait on time for racial change and the enduring harm of that trust in the clock. Brittney Edmonds is an Assistant Professor of Afro-American Studies at UW-Madison. I specialize in 20th and 21st century African American Literature and Culture with a special interest in Black Humor Studies. Read more about my work at brittneymichelleedmonds.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/intellectual-history

What if, Joseph Darda asks, our desire to solve racism--with science, civil rights, antiracist literature, integration, and color blindness--has entrenched it further? In The Strange Career of Racial Liberalism (Stanford UP, 2022), he traces the rise of liberal antiracism, showing how reformers' faith in time, in the moral arc of the universe, has undercut future movements with the insistence that racism constitutes a time-limited crisis to be solved with time-limited remedies. Most historians attribute the shortcomings of the civil rights era to a conservative backlash or to the fracturing of the liberal establishment in the late 1960s, but the civil rights movement also faced resistance from a liberal "frontlash," from antiredistributive allies who, before it ever took off, constrained what the movement could demand and how it could demand it. Telling the stories of Ruth Benedict, Kenneth Clark, W. E. B. Du Bois, John Howard Griffin, Pauli Murray, Lillian Smith, Richard Wright, and others, Darda reveals how Americans learned to wait on time for racial change and the enduring harm of that trust in the clock. Brittney Edmonds is an Assistant Professor of Afro-American Studies at UW-Madison. I specialize in 20th and 21st century African American Literature and Culture with a special interest in Black Humor Studies. Read more about my work at brittneymichelleedmonds.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/american-studies

What if, Joseph Darda asks, our desire to solve racism--with science, civil rights, antiracist literature, integration, and color blindness--has entrenched it further? In The Strange Career of Racial Liberalism (Stanford UP, 2022), he traces the rise of liberal antiracism, showing how reformers' faith in time, in the moral arc of the universe, has undercut future movements with the insistence that racism constitutes a time-limited crisis to be solved with time-limited remedies. Most historians attribute the shortcomings of the civil rights era to a conservative backlash or to the fracturing of the liberal establishment in the late 1960s, but the civil rights movement also faced resistance from a liberal "frontlash," from antiredistributive allies who, before it ever took off, constrained what the movement could demand and how it could demand it. Telling the stories of Ruth Benedict, Kenneth Clark, W. E. B. Du Bois, John Howard Griffin, Pauli Murray, Lillian Smith, Richard Wright, and others, Darda reveals how Americans learned to wait on time for racial change and the enduring harm of that trust in the clock. Brittney Edmonds is an Assistant Professor of Afro-American Studies at UW-Madison. I specialize in 20th and 21st century African American Literature and Culture with a special interest in Black Humor Studies. Read more about my work at brittneymichelleedmonds.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/politics-and-polemics

The Elephant ExperienceBlack Like MeJohn Howard GriffinA reading from BH365: An Inclusive Account of American History textbook from the Elephant Experience.White Man Experiences Life As A Negro in the Deep SouthCan a white person truly understand the black experience? Has anything changed since the 1960's? Is there any hope for our country regarding race relations? Even after much study and many cross-cultural conversations, most Black people would agree that it is impossible for a White person to fully understand the Black experience in America. Why? Because even if someone's skin was darkened and other physical aspects were altered, they still wouldn't be able to fully comprehend. John Howard Griffin, after talking with his wife, decided to try this transformational experiment for a certain period of time to become a Black man in America. This is a brief account of his transformation and the history behind what sparked a book by him called, "Black Like Me" that became an international seller and American History.  A white man, a husband and father,  literally changing himself (by the dying of his skin) to a black man, to see how differently to two are treated. This is African American history because of his historical experience. To  purchase the new revolutionary book BH365: An Inclusive Account of American History: https://www.blackhistory365education.com/joannescaifeThe Elephant ExperienceBlack Like MePages: 591-593Follow Us weekly, every Friday at www.BHM365.com Email us at info@bhm365.comPodcast music: Belleair Bluffs, Mikey Geiger, Soundstrips.comCheck us out on social media:FacebookTwitterInstagram*This is apart of BH365 Education posted for the public

How do we focus more on our design as women instead of our role as women? Glenn Stanton brings his expertise in the issues of gender, sexuality, marriage and parenting to the conversation and breaks down what it truly means to think beyond gender stereotypes and think more about our design. Glenn Stanton has served as the Director of Global Family Formation Studies at Focus on the Family for over 25 years. In this episode, he communicates with clarity on a topic that can tend toward confusion.    Glenn Stanton Show Notes:  Glenn’s Website: https://glenntstanton.com/  Colson Fellows: https://colsonfellows.org/  “Loving My LGBT Neighbor” by Glenn Stanton: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/loving-my-glenn-t-stanton/1118470603?ean=9780802412140  Books by Glenn Stanton: https://glenntstanton.com/books/  Focus on the Family: https://www.focusonthefamily.com/  “Black Like Me” by John Howard Griffin: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/black-like-me-john-howard-griffin/1100259641?ean=9780451234216  “Secure Daughters, Confident Sons: How Parents Guide Their Children into Authentic Masculinity and Femininity” by Glenn Stanton: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/secure-daughters-confident-sons-glenn-t-stanton/1113010216?ean=9781601422958  Mister Rogers Neighborhood: https://www.misterrogers.org/  “Bringing Up Boys” by Dr. James Dobson: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/bringing-up-boys-james-c-dobson/1102466053?ean=9781414391335  “Our Bodies Tell God’s Story” by Christopher West: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/our-bodies-tell-gods-story-christopher-west/1131928622?ean=9781587434273  Nancy Pearcey’s Website: http://www.nancypearcey.com/  “Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters” by Abigail Shrier: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/irreversible-damage-abigail-shrier/1133754701?ean=9781684510313  J.K. Rowling’s Website: https://www.jkrowling.com/  “Live Not by Lies” by Rod Dreher: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/live-not-by-lies-rod-dreher/1136997635?ean=9780593087398  Books by G.K. Chesterton: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/s/%22g+k%22+chesterton  “The Knowledge Machine” by Michael Strevens: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-knowledge-machine-michael-strevens/1136155230?ean=9781631491375  Join Strong Women on Social Media: https://linktr.ee/strongwomencc  Erin and her husband, Brett, run Maven which “exists to help the next generation know truth, pursue goodness, and create beauty, all for the cause of Christ.” Check out more about Maven here: https://maventruth.com/   The Strong Women Podcast is a product of the Colson Center which equips Christians to live out their faith with clarity, confidence, and courage in this cultural moment. Through commentaries, podcasts, videos, and more, we help Christians better understand what’s happening in the world, and champion what is true and good wherever God has called them.  Learn more about the Colson Center here: https://www.colsoncenter.org/   Visit our website and sign up for our email list so that you can stay up to date on what we are doing here and also receive our monthly book list: https://www.colsoncenter.org/strong-women 

How do we focus more on our design as women instead of our role as women? Glenn Stanton brings his expertise in the issues of gender, sexuality, marriage and parenting to the conversation and breaks down what it truly means to think beyond gender stereotypes and think more about our design. Glenn Stanton has served as the Director of Global Family Formation Studies at Focus on the Family for over 25 years. In this episode, he communicates with clarity on a topic that can tend toward confusion.    Glenn Stanton Show Notes:  Glenn’s Website: https://glenntstanton.com/  Colson Fellows: https://colsonfellows.org/  “Loving My LGBT Neighbor” by Glenn Stanton: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/loving-my-glenn-t-stanton/1118470603?ean=9780802412140  Books by Glenn Stanton: https://glenntstanton.com/books/  Focus on the Family: https://www.focusonthefamily.com/  “Black Like Me” by John Howard Griffin: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/black-like-me-john-howard-griffin/1100259641?ean=9780451234216  “Secure Daughters, Confident Sons: How Parents Guide Their Children into Authentic Masculinity and Femininity” by Glenn Stanton: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/secure-daughters-confident-sons-glenn-t-stanton/1113010216?ean=9781601422958  Mister Rogers Neighborhood: https://www.misterrogers.org/  “Bringing Up Boys” by Dr. James Dobson: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/bringing-up-boys-james-c-dobson/1102466053?ean=9781414391335  “Our Bodies Tell God’s Story” by Christopher West: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/our-bodies-tell-gods-story-christopher-west/1131928622?ean=9781587434273  Nancy Pearcey’s Website: http://www.nancypearcey.com/  “Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters” by Abigail Shrier: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/irreversible-damage-abigail-shrier/1133754701?ean=9781684510313  J.K. Rowling’s Website: https://www.jkrowling.com/  “Live Not by Lies” by Rod Dreher: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/live-not-by-lies-rod-dreher/1136997635?ean=9780593087398  Books by G.K. Chesterton: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/s/%22g+k%22+chesterton  “The Knowledge Machine” by Michael Strevens: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-knowledge-machine-michael-strevens/1136155230?ean=9781631491375  Join Strong Women on Social Media: https://linktr.ee/strongwomencc  Erin and her husband, Brett, run Maven which “exists to help the next generation know truth, pursue goodness, and create beauty, all for the cause of Christ.” Check out more about Maven here: https://maventruth.com/   The Strong Women Podcast is a product of the Colson Center which equips Christians to live out their faith with clarity, confidence, and courage in this cultural moment. Through commentaries, podcasts, videos, and more, we help Christians better understand what’s happening in the world, and champion what is true and good wherever God has called them.  Learn more about the Colson Center here: https://www.colsoncenter.org/   Visit our website and sign up for our email list so that you can stay up to date on what we are doing here and also receive our monthly book list: https://www.colsoncenter.org/strong-women 

Brainy thing: 19:33    Behind the Redwood Curtain (and beyond):  34:15   What We’re Learning from our Knitting: Catherine finished hosting 2020 Potholder exchange which she said was successful.   She has been doing some dyeing with procion dyes which she says was  fun but messy and recommends kool aid dyes (acid)  for beginners.   Her current project that she’s making for the Dishcloth Exchange is Log Cabin Dishcloth by Mary Anne Dinsmore  https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/log-cabin-dishcloth.   She also working on the Bright Sunny Day Mystery Knit Along by Sivia Harding Using Canon Hand Dyes by the Other Amy Lee but going slower than the clues are coming out.  https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/bright-sunny-day Margaret finished the third Potholder for the exchange using Chicken Potholder  by Erangi Udeshika https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/chicken-potholder-6 .  She also finished two projects in Laura Nelkins Kit Knit along.  First was a very pleasurable two color Stranded hat call Proto Lola https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/proto-lola  in green and white, Berroco Catena and Istez Lettlopi.   She’s was challenged by the combination of yarn (JaggerSpun Zephyr wool/silk laceweight yarn and small sharp needles.   The pattern is Cassio Collar  and the beads and findings are lovely.   In fact the whole thing is lovely now that it’s done.   I have an extra kit that I’m happy to send to a listener who is the first one on this thread (Episode 117) on our Ravelry Group  Teaching Your Brain to Knit.     Brainy Thing: Catherine discusses the difference between Empathy, Compassion and Pity and the role genetics and the brain plays on compassion. https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/study-finds-that-genes-play-a-role-in-empathy  https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-athletes-way/201310/the-neuroscience-empathy#:~:text=This%20specific%20part%20of%20your,the%20the%20right%20supramarginal%20gyrus.&text=This%20area%20of%20the%20brain,responsible%20for%20empathy%20and%20compassion.She also shares some compassion quizzes and recommends George Orwell’s Down and Out in Paris http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks01/0100171h.html  and Black Like Me by John Howard Griffin.    Max Planck https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Planck      https://mpfi.org/ Greater Good quiz  https://greatergood.berkeley.edu/quizzes/take_quiz/empathy   Behind the Redwood Curtain The local Natural Fiber Fair is going virtual this year http://www.naturalfiberfair.com/  so all can attend free this year.   Watch out for other local fiber events that may be going online.  Stitches has had virtual events https://stitches.events/  and Vogue Knitting will be putting on Virtual Knitting Live by Vogue Knitting on September 10-13 and October 8 through 11 https://www.vogueknittinglive.com/portal   Marketplace:   https://www.handspunhope.org/events?gclid=EAIaIQobChMIwf3OmdbV6wIVxcDACh0OzQ0cEAAYASAAEgI2p_D_BwE.     Welcome to Teaching Your Brain to Knit, episode 117 where we explore the genetic and brain links to Compassion, report on Catherine’s progress on Potholders and Sivia Harding’s Mystery Knit along and Margaret’s completion of two of Laura Nelkin’s kits.  We share that our local Natural Fiber Fair is going virtual and encourage everyone to check out their own local fiber events as well as national fiber shows that are happening online.    

Monty Cole's new play “Black Like Me,” grapples with John Howard Griffin’s seminal book. He explains how he adapted it for 21st century audiences, and how it found its way to the Repertory Theatre of St. Louis.

Father Len and Irish grapple with the difficulty of having a spiritual, moral, and meaningful conversation about the slogan “black lives matter.” Highlights, Ideas, and Wisdom Father Len explains why he is reticent to make statements about political slogans. It’s cowardice for religious leaders not to lead and speak out about spiritual and moral issues. People have to come to the truth by themselves, but religious leaders can and should help lead them there. “We are generally the better persuaded by the reasons we discover ourselves than by those given to us by others.” – Blaise Pascal We have become so politically rigid, polarized, and hell-bent on winning in the United States that the search for truth gets lost. There are good people and evil people. The line between good and evil cuts through every human heart. Father Len is reading “Black like Me” by John Howard Griffin to become more compassionate and feel the pain and suffering that can come from discrimination and being a minority.

Right now, as protests and calls for racial equality once again sweep across America, I think of a man who played a pivotal role in shaping not only my thinking, but the thinking and awareness of countless others. Join me as I share some of my conversations with the late John Howard Griffin, and some of the questions that arose as a result of our time together. Stay with me.

I live in a nice house with a nice lawn, in a nice subdivision and am comfortably upper middle class. My wife and I have both worked hard to have what we have. I also have the advantage of being a white male. I also have the disadvantage of being a white male. My disadvantage as I see it is this: I can understand why so many people of color are angry, and I know full well that anger goes back 400 years when the first African slaves landed on this continent. I’ve read a lot of history and have read and taught some of the right books, such as To Kill A Mockingbird and John Howard Griffin’s Black Like Me to make myself a more enlightened middle-aged white guy. What’s missing for me, though, is the visceral, life-altering state of being that comes from exposure. I don’t know the comingled anger and fear while driving or walking, or shopping or simply standing on a street corner while (insert the name of any minority group who’s ever faced systemic discrimination in this country). I do

I’m really bad at this

En 1961, el periodista John Howard Griffin publicó el libro ‘Black Like Me' (Negro como yo), tras haber pasado varios meses haciéndose pasar por una persona negra y viviendo en primera persona la discriminación a la que eran sometidos día a día los afroamericanos... "Cuaderno de Historias" es un podcast sobre curiosidades y anécdotas históricas de todos los tiempos. Presentado por Alfred López, escritor, divulgador y bloguero. Fondo músical: Alexander Klein - Morning Sun https://www.jamendo.com/track/1669511/morning-sun-solo-piano

Confiture confinée s'étale sans flancher. Chacun chez soi, nos deux amis du savoir continuent à apprendre des trucs et à vous les transmettre à leur façon (mais plus rapidement parce qu'on ne vit pas dans des studios d'enregistrement). Aujourd'hui nous découvrirons comment John Howard Griffin a poussé la logique du journalisme d'investigation pour dénoncer la condition des noirs pendant la ségrégation aux États-Unis et nous partirons sur les traces des grands nombres afin de comprendre la différence entre un billionaire et un milliardaire. 00:44 - Le journalisme d'investigation selon John Howard Griffin 20:33 - Les échelles des grands nombres

There’s a long history in America of white people imagining black people’s lives - in novels, in movies, and sometimes in journalism.  In 1969, Grace Halsell, a white journalist, published a book called Soul Sister. It was her account of living as a “black woman” in the United States. Lyndon Johnson provided a blurb for the book, and it sold over a million copies. Halsell was inspired by John Howard Griffin’s Black Like Me, which came out in 1961. That was inspired by an even earlier book in the 1940’s. It’s hard to imagine any of these projects happening now. It seems like a kind of journalistic blackface. But Halsell’s book raises a lot of questions that are still relevant today - about race, and the limits of empathy. This episode is a collaboration with NPR’s Code Switch.

This week dem boyz get to talkin' about Howard's hernia, Jadakiss vs. Lil Uzi Vert, blackface for research, B.Chaps with Almost Never Dead, Pop Smoke, the bullying of Quaden, rectal dilators, and everything ROOM TEMPERATURE!!!Support the show (http://Patreon.com/roomtemperature )

This week dem boyz get to talkin' about Howard's hernia, Jadakiss vs. Lil Uzi Vert, blackface for research, B.Chaps with Almost Never Dead, Pop Smoke, the bullying of Quaden, rectal dilators, and everything ROOM TEMPERATURE!!!Support the show (http://Patreon.com/roomtemperature )

On today's episode, Jim inherits a house full of Bob Marley impersonators. Then, we review and revise John Howard Griffin. He pretended to be black for some reason.

Morgan Atkinson has documented the life of Thomas Merton over two films. The poetic contemplative Thomas Merton lived an ever expanding and continual openness to God's love and Atkinson beautifully captures this on film. In this episode discover Thomas Merton as the rescuer of the contemplative tradition in Christianity, the middle-aged monk who fell ass over heels in love with a student nurse, and open dialogues with other religious traditions through the depth of each's contemplative stream. Atkinson has produced multiple documentaries on Thomas Merton, John Howard Griffin, Anna and Harlan Hubbard among many others. In our conversation we focus on what life lessons from Thomas Merton, his life as an artist and monk, what his students thought of him, and his ongoing legacy in the contemplative communities. Merton is a hero of mine, for his humor, humility, deep sense of wonder and of course for the quote that begins episode one of Contemplify, "I drink beer whenever I can lay my hands on any. I love beer, and by that very fact, the world."

In 1959, Texas journalist John Howard Griffin darkened his skin and lived for six weeks as a black man in the segregated South. In this week's episode of the Futility Closet podcast we'll describe his harrowing experience and what it taught him about the true state of race relations in America. We'll also ponder crescent moons, German submarines, and griffins in India and puzzle over why a man would be arrested for winning a prize at a county fair. Sources for our feature on John Howard Griffin: John Howard Griffin, Black Like Me, 1961. Robert Bonazzi, Man in the Mirror: John Howard Griffin and the Story of Black Like Me, 2010. Maurice Dolbier, "Blinding Disguise in South," Miami News, Oct. 15, 1961. Jerome Weeks, "'Black Like Me' Just One of Many Roles for John Howard Griffin," Dallas Morning News, Sept. 19, 1997. H.W. Quick, "He Finds Bias Blighting North, South," Milwaukee Sentinel, Jan. 16, 1964. Karen De Witt, "Oppressor Shown What Being Oppressed Is Like," Ottawa Citizen, Nov. 1, 1977. Ray Sprigle, In the Land of Jim Crow, 1949. Lucile Torkelson, "Writer Crosses the Race Barrier," Milwaukee Sentinel, Oct. 29, 1969. Research questions: Here's the image of the star and crescent: And here are the sources I've found that describe the German submarine rescue: Wolfgang Frank, The Sea Wolves, 1955. Arch Whitehouse, Subs and Submariners, 1961. Jacques Yves Cousteau, Captain Cousteau's Underwater Treasury, 1959. This week's lateral thinking puzzle was contributed by listener Lawrence Miller. You can listen using the player above, download this episode directly, or subscribe on iTunes or via the RSS feed at http://feedpress.me/futilitycloset. Please consider becoming a patron of Futility Closet -- on our Patreon page you can pledge any amount per episode, and all contributions are greatly appreciated. You can change or cancel your pledge at any time, and we've set up some rewards to help thank you for your support. You can also make a one-time donation via the Donate button in the sidebar of the Futility Closet website. Many thanks to Doug Ross for the music in this episode. If you have any questions or comments you can reach us at podcast@futilitycloset.com. Thanks for listening!  

Never ones to shy away from a difficult topic, this week the hosts enter into an important discussion on racism and dialogue used in conversations about race. The conversation opens up into an honest look at the history and realities of racism, and ways in which we are all complicit in systems of inequality.  After exploring such complexities, Jeff, Mona and Allen shift into a lighter conversation about IreniHacks!, their favorite life-hacks.   Host Check In (00:25) Discussion on Racism (06:37) IreniHacks! (49:04)   RELEVANT LINKS Helpful Links from Our Discussion on Race City Officials, Police Officers Quit After Mo. Voters Elect First Female Black Mayor by Linsey Bever (article) Joe vs Jose (YouTube Video) Study Examines Racial Bias at Crosswalks (article) The Neuroscience of Race – Is Racism Inbuilt? (article) PBS - RACE: The Power of an Illusion (reference link) Black Like Me by John Howard Griffin (Book - Amazon Affiliate Link) Megyn Kelly Defends Her Santa Comments, Attacks Critics For 'Race Baiting' (YouTube Video) White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Backpack by Peggy McIntosh (article) The Guardian - Everyday Racism: What Should We Do? (YouTube Video) The Cross and the Lynching Tree by James Cone (Book - Amazon Affiliate Link) Jesus and the Disinherited by Howard Thurman (Book - Amazon Affiliate Link) Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria: And Other Conversations About Race by Beverly Daniel Tatum (Book - Amazon Affiliate Link) Links for Our Ireni-Hacks! Wire/Cable Management Blowhard 5000 (Courtesy of the great Alton Brown) Soda Tabs & Hangers Seal Plastic Cereal Bags With Old Bottle Tops   THANK YOU A big thank you to Mike Golin for our intro and outro music.  Check out his band Soulwise.   WE WANT TO HEAR FROM YOU Thank you for supporting the podcast!  Your ratings, reviews and feedback are not only encouraging to us personally, but they help others find the show.  If you appreciate the content we provide please rate, review and subscribe to the podcast on iTunes and Stitcher.   Join our conversations on faith and culture by interacting with us through the following links: Read Us on our blog An Irenicon Email Us at podcast@irenicast.com Follow Us on Twitter or on Google+ Like Us on Facebook Love Us   You can also send us a Voice Message at irenicast.com/feedback  

What is Black History Month?    Black History Month is a time for learning about the African American experience, which includes the history and other issues, events, and experiences that are important to the African American community. And might actually be important to all Americans. After all, we are one country.    This is a time for learning about the contributions of Black people, learning about the struggles, the victories, the difficulties, and the successes of African Americans.  As a child, Black History month was a time when we would change the focus from great American figures like Thomas Jefferson to “other” great Americans like Martin Luther King.  But we wouldn’t stop there. We would learn about “lesser known” African American “greats” like Benjamin Banneker, Bass Reeves, and Mary McLeod Bethune, Ida B. Wells. Just recently, I learned about Bessie Coleman who was the first Black woman aviator—she wasn’t permitted to learn to fly in the United States, so she taught herself French, moved to France, and learned to fly! There is so much more about this woman I can say but she was just one example of the great stories that are “hidden” about Black people.  Black History Month is a time for learning, but it is also a time for celebration. This is a month that we enjoy Black culture, food, music, dance, and art.   It’s a great time to go to a jazz concert or attend a concert of African drummers, go to an Ethiopian restaurant, or watch X by Spike Lee (again). Spend the month reading Roots by Alex Haley (yes, it is about 500 pages) or visit one of the African American history museums opening throughout the country. Have a barbecue (inside if it’s too cold) or attend a lecture on African American literature. There are many, many ways to celebrate Black History Month while learning and enjoying Black culture.   The list is endless.  I just started reading Black Like Me by John Howard Griffin. Wow! What a great book about a white man in the 1950s in Louisiana who through a chemical process turns himself black.  He has some interesting, scary and dangerous experiences that I’m not going to spoil for you but it is his insight into living in a white world and living in a black world that are so amazing. It reads so easily but it definitely gives you food for thought. Speaking of food, I thought that, in honor of Black history month, I would make one dish from Black culture every day. Today, I made Jollof rice, which is actually a dish from the Gambia in west Africa. I made a big pot (I probably won’t have to cook for a few days) but I will add something to it tomorrow like plantains (Caribbean) or fried okra. These sound fantastic. By the way, if you want to see my Jollof rice,  I have a picture of it on facebook, where you can find me at Robin Lofton or better the facebook page that I manage called, Remembering History.  Or you can follow me at waikoloarobin (spell it). Waikoloa is a town on the Big Island of Hawaii where I spend every summer. (say and spell it again).   Back to Black History month: There is something for all ages, genders, and interests to make it a month of learning and celebration. Just spend the month focusing on things African American. Is Black History Month just for African Americans? No way!    The month focuses on the Black experience but it is not only for African Americans.  It is for all Americans—Caucasian, Asian, Latinos, people of Arabic descent and the list goes on.  The stories include the full range of emotions and human experiences so everyone can find and connect to an aspect of African culture.     Still, I understand that every issue does not affect every one directly.  Every ethnic, racial, religious group feels that they deserve respect and acknowledgement. Both women and men feel that need for acknowledgement. Everyone deserves compassion.  But I do think that Black history month is a great time to remember the contributions of African Americans, African Caribbeans and Africans living on the continent. Remember, we are one world.     Black History month is a time to bask in the glory of being Black.  Every Black man, woman, and child can deepen his or her knowledge, feeling, and understanding of this great culture.  And everyone, absolutely everyone, can learn more about the Africans, the African Americans, and the African Caribbeans who built their countries and made important contributions to the world.   And don’t remember to spend time learning, but also spend time dancing, eating, reading and remembering the ancestors. Let’s celebrate Black History Month.        Stay tuned: Tomorrow we will learn the fascinating story of who initiated Black History Month.   And please visit robinlofton.com to leave your questions, comments and thoughts. I would love to hear how you celebrate Black History month or just what you think of Black History month. And I hope that you have visited my Facebook page at remembering history to tell me what you think of my Jollof rice picture. There’s gonna be lots of food pictures this month so keep coming back.   Finally, I want to remind you that for everyone who views this podcast or any of my podcasts this month, I will donate $1 to Blackpast.org, which is an online encyclopedia of African American history. It is also a great resource for research or just for curious minds who want to know more about history of Black people. Blackpast.org.    Hope you enjoyed this podcast. See you tomorrow to learn who started Black History Month. It really is a fascinating story. See you soon at robinlofton.com.

History is Power: The Civil Rights Movement   Welcome back to robinlofton.com where we are remembering history and we’re making history!  Today, we are continuing with next part of our History is Power Lecture series.  Today’s lecture is about Civil Rights but let’s back up for a moment for those who are just joining us or to refresh our memory.   Remember, we began by asking why it is important to know African American history. I think that the legendary Jackie Robinson answered that question by encouraging us to believe in fairy tales. Remember on his first day playing with the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947, he almost could not believe it because he thought that an African American might not ever play in the major leagues and he thought that he would never be the first to do so.  But they did and he was the first. So, he says that he believes in fairy tales…that fairy tales do come true because it happened to him. At the end of the first lecture, we concluded that if it could happen to him, then it can happen to you, too. We learn history for inspiration, insight, the success stories, the struggles, and the knowledge that nothing can stop you, but you.   In the second History is Power! lecture called “Coming to America,” we studied how the ancestors of most African Americans came to America. We discussed the terrible and violent institution of slavery and how it affected our families, culture and traditions. We also discussed the movement to abolish slavery.  The great orator, author, and abolitionist Frederick Douglass gave us insight into how slaves were deprived of the most basic rights and dignity and how, even at an early age, he knew that this was indecent and wrong. We also heard from a former librarian of congress who reminded us that “trying to plan for the future without a sense of the past is like trying to plant cut flowers.”  Slavery is one part of African American history and, we can choose to feel pride and strength that our ancestors fought, struggled, and endured so that we could live and thrive.    So far, in our history is power lecture series, we have learned to believe in fairy tales and that we must never plant cut flowers.   I hope that you will listen to those previous lectures if you have not done so already or just feel free to listen to them again if you need a review or a bit of inspiration. And please leave your comments, experiences, or questions about these topics. We have a great community at robinlofton.com and everyone is welcome.   So, what’s next?   The fight for freedom (abolition of slavery) was the first step.  The next step was the struggle for equality.  So, here is where we examine the Civil Rights Movement. By the way, in the first lecture, I said that we would examine roughly 400 years of African American history (from the time when the first Black person arrived in the American colonies to the present day). I’m sure that some of you made a heavy sigh and thought that this would be a long and tedious series. But—surprise, surprise!—we have already completed about 350 years of African American history!    I’m sure that most people—young and old—have some knowledge of the civil rights movement. That’s great! But I’m going to try to expand the modern (or understood) notion of civil rights and the African American struggle for equality. It has not been an easy road; it has been a road with bumps, twists, and turns but it was always headed in the same direction: equality. The road was lined with hardships, disappointment, struggle, and violence but it was the road that needed to be taken.   Following the abolition of slavery in (what year? Great! 1865), African Americans worked to establish a strong foundation for themselves and their families.  Yes, it’s true that some former slaves left the United States and moved back to Africa. However, most former slaves had been in the United States for generations and therefore chose to stay. Also, it was a land of great opportunity and resources.   Still, even though slavery was abolished, Blacks were still not considered equal in the eyes of the law or the eyes of their fellow Americans.  Remember that many people who opposed slavery did not envision Whites and Blacks as living together in peaceful harmony. And they did not want Blacks to have rights equal to white Americans, including the right to vote, receive an education or full citizenship rights.  Blacks were considered lower-class citizens.  You see, freedom was just the first step, it was a huge and essential step, but it was just the beginning.   But you might be asking now: why did people wait until the 1960s to start fighting for equality?                                                                           Great question. My answer:  They didn’t wait.   African Americans and others started fighting for civil rights immediately after the abolition of slavery. (In fact, one might well argue that abolition was the first fight for civil rights!) Who were these people or groups fighting for civil rights?   There were so many that they can’t all be named here, but I do want to name a few. Some names might be familiar—I hope they’re familiar--but they might not typically be associated with civil rights. Others might be completely new—and that’s okay too—we’re here to learn.     National Negro Convention. Founded in 1830, the very first National Negro Convention met for five days in Philadelphia to “devise ways and means for bettering of our condition,” and to fight oppression and promote universal education. This is very interesting because slavery was still legal at that time (1830) and yet these free African Americans were pursuing ways to improve the Black condition in the United States. Following abolition of slavery, the conventions focused on voting rights, fair employment, education, citizenship rights, and the repeal of laws that discriminated against African Americans.  This was an early version—or a precursor—to the modern civil rights movement.   Have you heard of Ida B. Wells?   Born in 1862, Ida B. Wells was a courageous and bold civil rights leader, a hardworking editor, and a passionate speaker and writer.  She fought against the practice of lynching. In this way, Ida B. Wells analyzed the reasons and effects of lynching with depth and insight.  She founded a newspaper and wrote a groundbreaking book about lynching called: Southern Horrors: Lynching Law in All Its Phases, which was the first real research done on that terrible practice.  Ida B. Wells concluded that armed resistance was the only defense against lynching.    She was also a suffragette and worked hard for the rights of mothers in the workplace.  A little known fact about her was that she was the first African American to win monetary damages in court.  Just a quick story about it: On a trip to Ohio in 1885, Ida B. Wells was told to give up her seat on a train and move to the smoking car. She refused and was physically dragged by three men to a car for “colored” people. She later sued and was awarded $500. However, the appeals court reversed the decision. That doesn’t matter; she was bold enough to stand up to the injustice and to fight in the courts.  Ida B. Wells was a strong leader in the early movement for civil rights—for African Americans and for women.   Carter G. Woodson. Is his name familiar? He founded Black History Month. Let’s back up. Born in 1875, Dr. Woodson was the son of former slaves.  He was always interested in learning and, in 1912, he became the second Black person to receive a doctorate from Harvard University. (WEB Dubois was the first.) His focus was on African American history. He wanted people to recognize the contributions of African Americans but realized that this was never taught or even acknowledged. He started National Negro Week in 1926. This was later expanded to the entire month of February. He also founded the Association of African American Life and History, which is celebrating its centennial anniversary this year. He wrote more than a dozen books, most notably the iconic Mis-education of the Negro, which is still relevant and useful even today. His contributions and continuous commitment to teaching and spreading African American history and culture in the United States have made these subjects essential parts of educational curricula throughout the country. For this reason, he is known as the father of Black History.  He was certainly one of the important leaders in the early civil rights movement.   Another icon in education was Mary MacLeod Bethune who was super-charged to make sure every child received an education. She founded an innovative school for African American girls. The girls worked hard in this school, which opened at 5:30 every day and closed at 9:00 every night. And Mary Macleod Bethune taught there every day. She eventually founded Bethune-Cookman University.  In 1935, Mary Macleod Bethune founded the National Council of Negro Women, which was the first organization focused on the rights and needs of black women. She tirelessly fought for equality in education, voting rights, and for equal rights for women in the armed forces.   Writers also helped to propel the early civil rights movement—often by helping us to see our world in a new and different way. Richard Wright wrote Black Boy in 1945, which compared and critiqued the black experience in the North and South. The Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison illustrated the social and intellectual issues facing African Americans in the early 20th century. Black Like Me by John Howard Griffin took a unique approach to comparing the lives and experiences of blacks and whites in the Deep South in the 1950s.  And we can never forget one of the most important books in American literature, Their Eyes were Watching God, by Zora Neale Hurston who bravely told her story with beauty, wit and wisdom. That book changed everyone who read it.   But it was not until the 1950s that the modern civil rights movement took form and leadership.  Some people say that one event in particular started the civil rights movement: the lynching of young Emmett Till in August 1955.  In fact, this terrible event brought national awareness to the horrors of lynching (words from Ida B. Wells). And the fact that it happened to a child (Emmett was only 14 years old) made it particularly reprehensible. Lynchings were occurring at an alarming rate for over a century. Remember this is what Ida B. Wells was fighting for so long.   Other injustices and degradations were occurring on a regular and consistent basis.  An organized movement was nearly inevitable. As Blacks moved away from the gripping oppression and violence of the Southern states and became educated, organized and more financially stable, the movement toward civil rights evolved.         This movement happened on two equally important fronts:   Passive resistance by group efforts—marches, protests, demonstrations, boycotts, sit-ins and stand-ins.   The second front we will cover in the next podcast: Law (new laws like the Civil Rights Act) and landmark Supreme Court cases like Brown v. Board of Education. But those are for the next podcast.   Let’s take a quick look at the first two approaches to the fight for equality.   Passive Resistance.  This term and approach were made famous by Mahatma Gandhi.  Passive Resistance or Civil Disobedience was used quite effectively in the fight for civil rights in America.  This is probably the “front” that most people remember when thinking of the civil rights movement. And the Southern Christian Leadership Council (the SCLC, founded  in 1957) with Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. as its first president was at the forefront of this peaceful movement.  It used marches, protests, demonstrations, boycotts, sit-ins and many other “disobedient” actions.    One effective approach involved boycotts.  One of the most effective boycotts took place in Montgomery, Alabama. This was the famous Montgomery Bus boycott, which started on December 5, 1955. This was an immediate response to the arrest of Rosa Parks who had refused to give up her seat to a white person on a bus. Led by the newly formed Montgomery Improvement Association (a precursor to the SCLC), the boycott lasted 381 days. To help with transportation, churches rented cars, station wagons and other vehicles to take people to work, home and school. Carpools became the norm.  The boycott put enormous economic pressure on the Montgomery bus system, which finally agreed to end segregation on its buses. And the U.S. Court of Appeals also invalidated segregation on all buses in Alabama in Browder v. Gayle—we’ll discuss that next time.   Boycotts were used throughout the Civil Rights Movement to put economic pressure on companies or stores to change their unfair and unequal rules and practices. They were difficult but effective. The Montgomery bus boycott took the movement to a new level of depth and organization. The modern Civil Rights Movement had begun!   Another effective tool used in the modern Civil Rights Movement—made possible with newly-organized efforts and clear goals--were marches and protests. The March on Washington is one of the most famous marches in US history. It was held on August 28, 1963.  Did you know full name of this march was the March on Washington for jobs and freedom? The march was designed to focus national attention on racial equality and to pressure the president and Congress to pass a Civil Rights law. It was the largest protest march in the country up to that time, with more than 250,000 people (both Black and White) joining the march. It involved entertainers, performances, and speakers of whom the most famous was Dr. King who gave his iconic “I Have a Dream” speech. After the march, civil rights leaders met with a previously reluctant President Kennedy who finally promised to push for anti-discrimination legislation. It was actually President Johnson who signed the Civil Rights Act, but we’ll discuss that next time.               There were many marches that occurred during this period. The last two marches that we’ll discuss today were focused on voting rights in Dallas County, Alabama. No not Texas, but Alabama.  This area was part of what was called the Black Belt.  Many white residents strongly (sometimes violently) resisted voter registration by African Americans in that region. Violence, intimidation and threats were used to prevent blacks from registering to vote. Because of these tactics, only 1 percent of blacks were registered to vote in that Dallas County. Selma was the seat of Dallas County so that was where the marches and protests were focused.   The SCLC and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (or SNCC) that was founded in 1960 with Marion Barry as its first president organized voter registration campaigns and marches in Selma.  There were a series of marches in January and February of 1965. During one of the marches, Jimmy Lee Jackson, who was peacefully participating, was shot and killed by an Alabama State Trooper.   On March 7, the SCLC and SNCC organized a march to publicize and protest his killing by the state trooper. This became the infamous bloody Sunday march. Alabama state troopers and local law enforcement officers demanded that the 600 protesters immediately disband. When they refused, the troopers attacked with tear gas, billy clubs, dogs, and hoses. More than 50 marchers were seriously injured or hospitalized. This tragic event was televised and has become an iconic view of the southern response of the civil rights movement. But that was not the end of the story in Selma.   Another very important march started two weeks later. It was a 5-day, 50-mile march from Selma to Montgomery. The goal was to promote and secure voting rights for African Americans, the passage of a voting rights act. More than 8,000 people participated in this march, which peacefully arrived in Montgomery on March 25. The Voting Rights Act was passed 5 months later. More information on that next time.   Sit-ins and stand-ins were another effective and sometimes dangerous approach to challenging unfair store policies that would not allow Blacks to sit or be served at lunch counters. How did sit-ins work?  A group of African Americans would fill all the seats at a lunch counter and ask to be served. The store would refuse to serve them. However, they would remain seated there for hours—usually until the store closed. The protesters (people who were engaged in the sit-in) would be subjected to physical, verbal abuse and threats. Hot coffee would be thrown on them; food, water and other items would be thrown at them.  Many times, the protesters were arrested. They were quickly replaced at the lunch counter by more protesters.   These sit-ins took place at stores like Woolworths that refused to serve Black people.  Stand-ins were equally effective against movie theatres that wouldn’t allow African Americans to buy tickets to the movie.  Blacks would stand in line in large numbers and ask to buy tickets. After they were denied, they would get into line again and request a ticket. Eventually, stores and movie theatres changed their policies and started patronizing African Americans but it was a dangerous and difficult time. The brave protesters (who were often high school or college students) were persistent in their pursuit of equal treatment in public facilities.   One of the first sit-ins was held in Oklahoma City in 1958 where NAACP Youth Council members sat at the “whites only” restaurant counters. They were served without incident or publicity. But, unfortunately, all sit-ins did not achieve these immediate results or end without violence.   The first sit-in movement to achieve widespread results was initiated on February 1, 1960 by four Black students who sought service at a Woolworth’s “whites only” lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina. The sit-in gained momentum and within 10 days had spread to 15 cities in five states. On March 16, the city of San Antonio became the first southern city to integrate its lunch counters as a result of this movement.    Finally, let’s end this section with a brief look at the Freedom rides, which actually began in 1947.  The freedom rides tested segregation in busing and interstate travel. In that year, the rides were testing the implementation of a Supreme Court decision that had prohibited segregated seating on buses travelling among the states. Twelve people were arrested in Virginia and North Carolina but later released. This outcome occurred on other freedom rides through the southern states but they also turned violent in some cases. On May 4, 1960, another interracial group of freedom riders boarded public buses in Washington, DC heading through the south to New Orleans. When they reached Alabama, the violence began. One bus was firebombed in Anniston, Alabama. Another bus was attacked by a mob of whites in front of the sheriff’s office that didn’t provide any protection to the riders. Upon arriving in Montgomery, Alabama, the riders were viciously attacked by hundreds of whites.  President Kennedy sent federal marshals and Governor Patterson declared martial law. After long negotiations between the president and Mississippi senator James Eastland, the freedom riders were arrested in Jackson. More riders arrived and they continued to be arrested. Hundreds of freedom riders were jailed during that summer. In the fall of that year, a final ruling was issued that outlawed segregation in interstate travel.  The freedom riders risked a lot but they eventually won the battle. We all won.   There is so much more to say about the marches, boycotts, sit-ins and stand-ins but we’ve covered a lot in this podcast. We have to save something for the next podcast.   While the marches and protests were extremely effective, their ultimate goal was to change the laws that permitted unequal treatment and segregation. And the laws did change. Old laws were thrown out and new laws were created.  The Supreme Court was at the front of this legal change.  But groups like the NAACP and the ACLU were the real visionaries of this part of the movement.   Remember segregation was still the norm in much of the country. “No Coloreds” and “Whites Only” signs were legal and enforced.  Schools were segregated. Housing was segregated. Resources, jobs, funds, facilities were segregated.  Everything was separate yet it was not equal.   In my next podcast, we will how segregation was dismantled through the law and the important players in this critical step towards equality like the NAACP, the Supreme Court, and even the U.S. president or two.   I hope that you will join me for that incredibly important and (I promise!) interesting podcast.  The Civil Rights Movement was definitely an exciting time in US history.  It seems like the people at the time were either on their best game or at their most evil. We know how that story ends. Lots of great things happened for the country. But lots of good people also died. It showed that dreams really can come true.   Please remember to contact me at robinlofton.com. I want your comments, questions, and thoughts.  And you can also find those books that I mentioned at the online store. They are definitely worth reading, I promise!    See you soon at robinlofton.com where we are remembering history and we’re making it!        

John Howard Griffin, a white journalist, dyed his skin black to experience segregation in America's Deep South. John Howard Griffin wrote a book about his seven week experience. *** Listeners should be aware that some of the language in this programme reflects the historical context of the time. *** Photo: Griffin as a black man in 1959 (left). Courtesy of John Howard Griffin Estate.

John Howard Griffin, a white journalist, dyed his skin black to experience segregation in America's Deep South. John Howard Griffin wrote a book about his seven week experience. *** Listeners should be aware that some of the language in this programme reflects the historical context of the time. *** Photo: Griffin as a black man in 1959 (left). Courtesy of John Howard Griffin Estate.

Mar 1, 2010. Cultural historian George Cotkin calls for a "healthy dose of befuddlement" in considering some of the most controversial episodes of the last hundred years.