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From KQED.

Thank you. From KQED.

From KQED in San Francisco, I'm Alexis Madrigal.

On April 1, 1950, about 144,000 census takers fanned out across the United States to count the people. Each conversation they had was reduced to a handwritten entry on a form.

Now, 72 years later, the National Archives has released those manuscripts.

You can find Marilyn Monroe, Jerry Garcia, maybe a long-forgotten relative in these pages.

But the count represents more than an exercise and genealogical spalunking.

It's an American political tool that's been enforced since 1790.

We'll talk to historians about what they hope to find in the 1950 census and why it's important. And then we'll hear the story of KGUA, Native American Radio, straight out of

Gualala.

Welcome to Forum. I'm Alexis Madrigal. I like to know where I am, not just in space, but also

in time. So as soon as I knew the 1950 census was available,

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