Lynching in America - Part 2

Black History for White People

Education, History, Religion & Spirituality, Christianity, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 15 July 2020

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

Part 2 of our discussion on Lynching in America. We meet with Jessica Luther Rummel, a doctoral student at UNT studying the theo-historical origins of white supremacy and family advocate with the Denton County NAACP to discuss the history of Goat Man's Bridge and the case with Lermont Stowers-Jones. We then take some time to lament our past. Finally, we end the episode with interviewing the parents of Lermont Stowers-Jones, Amy and Lermon, to talk about their experience.

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0:00.0	I don't know what those white people in this country feel,
0:05.0	but I can only include what they feel from the state of their institution.
0:10.0	Now, this is the evidence.
0:14.0	You want me to make an act of faith, risking myself, my wife, my woman, my sister, my children,
0:20.0	on some idealism which you assure me
0:23.9	exists in America, which I have never seen.
0:28.5	Welcome back to Black History for White People, a podcast where we educate, resource, and challenge
0:34.7	white people about Black history. I'm Brad, and on today's show are my co-host
0:39.2	Katina and Garron. Today's topic is lynching in America. You are listening to part two of our
0:45.2	episode on lynching in America. So if you're brand new and just tuning in, make sure to go back
0:49.7	and listen to part one. We'll begin this episode with an interview at Goatman's Bridge
0:53.7	discussing the
0:54.5	Lermont Stowers-Jones case, and then we'll take some time to lament, and then we'll end the episode
0:58.9	with an interview of Lermont's parents, Amy and Lerman, about their entire experience. We hope you
1:04.5	enjoy the discussion.
1:14.1	Let's stand over here in the shade for a second. I'm just going to kind of set the stage and then we'll walk in a little bit.
1:16.9	Yeah.
1:17.9	Goatman's Bridge has a legendary history.
1:23.0	So the legend goes that there was a man named Oscar Washburn, a black man named Oscar Washburn,
1:29.6	who in the 30s was lynched by the KKK from this bridge.
1:33.8	Historians have all desperately tried to find factual evidence of that.
1:38.4	There is no factual evidence or historical evidence to substantiate the claims.
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