240: Reflecting on Darkness: Lynching; Americans and the Holocaust

BackStory

History, Education

4.7 • 2.9K Ratings

🗓️ 25 May 2018

⏱️ 39 minutes

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On this week’s episode, Nathan, Brian, Joanne & Ed talk about how Americans remember and reckon with systematic violence, and how we keep this difficult history alive and in the public eye. Historian Kidada Williams reads letters from a man seeking justice for his son who was lynched, and Brian visits an exhibit at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington D.C.

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0:00.0	Thanks for downloading this episode of Backstory.
0:02.8	If you like what you hear, there's much more at backstoryradio.org.
0:07.0	Major funding for Backstory is provided by an anonymous donor,
0:10.6	the National Dowment for the Humanities, the University of Virginia,
0:14.2	the Joseph and Robert Cornell Memorial Foundation,
0:17.0	and the Arthur Vining Davis foundations.
0:22.0	From Virginia Humanities, this is Backstory.
0:31.0	Welcome to Backstory, the show that explains the history behind today's headlines.
0:36.0	I'm Ed Ayers.
0:37.0	I'm Brian Bellow.
0:38.0	I'm Joanne Freeman.
0:39.0	And I'm Nathan Connolly.
0:41.0	If you're new to the podcast, we're all historians.
0:44.0	And each week we explore the history of a topic that's been in the news.
0:49.0	Last month, the National Memorial for Peace and Justice opened in Montgomery, Alabama.
0:54.0	The memorial is dedicated to the thousands of African-Americans
0:58.0	who were lynched between 1877 and 1950.
1:03.0	At the center of the museum is a walkway with 800 steel columns
1:08.0	each inscribed with the name of an American county and who was lynched there.
1:13.0	The columns hang from the ceiling, reminding visitors of bodies strung up in trees.
1:19.0	Today on the show, we're going to talk about how we as Americans remember
1:24.0	and reckon with systematic violence.
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