A Georgia Man's Life Mission To Preserve Black History
What A Day
What A Day
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🗓️ 19 June 2024
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
Speaking at a Juneteenth event at the White House this month, President Joe Biden warned about the “old ghosts in new garments” trying to erase the nation’s Black history by banning books and restricting diversity programs. But across the country, people are also working hard to preserve that history in the face of Republican opposition. So, on a special Juneteenth episode of “What A Day,” we speak to an organization doing just that: The Jack Hadley Black History Museum in Thomasville, Georgia. Jack Hadley, the museum’s founder and curator, has spent his life collecting thousands of artifacts that help tell the story of Black history in America. We speak to him and the museum’s executive director, Daniel Pittman, about how the museum is growing and what it means to do this work right now.
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| 0:00.0 | It's Wednesday, June 19th. I'm Josie Duffy Rice. And I'm Travel Anderson and this is what a day. |
| 0:12.8 | On today's show, we're celebrating Juneteenth, |
| 0:15.5 | the holiday that commemorates the end of slavery |
| 0:18.2 | in the United States. |
| 0:19.2 | Right, on this day in 1865, |
| 0:21.5 | the last remaining group of enslaved African Americans in Galveston, Texas, finally |
| 0:26.1 | learned they were free. |
| 0:28.1 | The news arrived two months after the end of the Civil War and more than two years after President Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation. |
| 0:35.7 | Now, Black Americans have been celebrating Juneteenth for more than a century, and in 2021, |
| 0:41.4 | President Joe Biden signed legislation making it a federal holiday and at |
| 0:46.7 | this year's Juneteenth celebration at the White House Biden talked about the many ways |
| 0:50.8 | black history is currently under attack. |
| 0:54.3 | They're all ghosts and new garments trying to take us back. |
| 0:59.3 | Well, there are taking away your freedoms |
| 1:01.8 | making it harder for black people to vote, or have your vote count it. |
| 1:06.0 | Closing doors of opportunity, attacking the values of diversity, equity and inclusion. |
| 1:12.0 | If you can believe in banning books about black experience in America, |
| 1:17.0 | trying to erase and rewrite history. |
| 1:19.0 | And while the president didn't explicitly call out Republicans in his speech. |
| 1:23.7 | We know that they're the ones leading the latest charge |
| 1:26.9 | to rewrite American history, from banning books that |
| 1:30.0 | talk about race from schools, |
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