Paired: The Moton School Strike (w/ Memory Palace)
This Day in Esoteric Political History
Jody Avirgan & Radiotopia
4.6 • 982 Ratings
🗓️ 12 June 2022
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
For the next few episodes, we’re re-posting some of our favorite recent conversations — alongside episodes from fellow Radiotopia shows that cover the same topic or theme.
Today, our episode about the 1951 school walkout in Farmville, Virginia, paired with an episode of The Memory Palace about the same event, led by Barbara Johns.
Thanks to Nate DiMeo for letting us run this episode, and be sure to check out The Memory Palace wherever you get your podcasts!
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everyone Jody here a reminder that for a few episodes we are trying something cool and new |
| 0:04.7 | running stories that we have done alongside episodes from other shows at Radiotopia that have taken |
| 0:10.7 | on the same topic or theme. |
| 0:13.3 | Today, two stories about Barbara Johns |
| 0:15.9 | and the 1951 Moton School Walkout. |
| 0:19.2 | We'll run our episode, one of our recent favorites, |
| 0:21.5 | and then we will run an episode from the memory |
| 0:23.6 | palace about the same story. These actually happened to come out right around the |
| 0:27.6 | same time like within a week of each other and we didn't plan for it we didn't |
| 0:30.7 | coordinate with Nate but we got some emails and |
| 0:32.5 | tweets pointing out the coincidence from listeners to our show who are also |
| 0:35.9 | listeners to the Memory Palace. Listeners to the Memory Palace, by the way, they are |
| 0:40.6 | a special type of listener. Like, let me tell you a story. This is something I've noticed when you ask someone hey, you know, what's your favorite podcast? Like usually people will list a few things talk about what they like or whatever |
| 0:50.9 | But fans of the memory palace when you them, what's your favorite podcast? |
| 0:55.2 | They'll like, take your hand, look you right in the eye, and just go, the Memory Palace. |
| 1:01.1 | Like it's obvious, that is the best podcast. Why are we even having this |
| 1:04.1 | conversation? And honestly it's hard to disagree you are going to hear it here |
| 1:08.1 | when we run Nate DeMayo's story about Barbara Johns. It is just an incredible |
| 1:12.1 | show. But first our version of the story. Here we go. |
| 1:17.9 | Hello and welcome to this day in esoteric political history from Radiotopia. My name is Jody Avergan. |
| 1:25.9 | This day April 24, 1951, black students at Robert Russo-Moulton High School in the town of Farmville, Virginia, |
| 1:34.6 | walked out of school to protest the conditions of their education, |
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