Deep South | E1 Isadore Banks

Unfinished

SiriusXM

Society & Culture, Documentary, True Crime

4.7 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 29 June 2020

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

For most of his life Isadore Banks found ways to survive—and thrive—in the violently anti-black South. He became one of the largest land-owners on the Arkansas Delta, ran several businesses, and was a leader in his community. Then, something changed.

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0:00.0	Witness Docs from Stitcher
0:10.0	Who is your hometown hero?
0:12.5	You know.
0:14.0	Someone you looked up to when you were a kid.
0:17.1	Maybe they were an athlete, or an actor, or a businessman.
0:21.3	Every town has one.
0:22.6	They're good at something.
0:24.6	They contribute something.
0:26.6	Even if you don't really know them.
0:28.8	This hometown hero sets an example.
0:31.4	They show you what's possible.
0:35.0	Now keep that person in mind, and let's rewind 70 years.
0:40.4	To the 1950s, back before the space age.
0:46.2	Before the internet.
0:47.7	Before Twitter.
0:52.2	In 1954, in a tiny Arkansas town on the Mississippi River, the hero for many years
0:58.8	was a man named Isador Banks.
1:01.8	He was well over six feet tall, weighed nearly 300 pounds.
1:06.0	He was strong, quick, and handsome.
1:09.2	Isador had served in World War I.
1:11.5	He owned hundreds of acres of farmland, and he'd become really, really rich.
1:17.6	He had seven different plantations.
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