Hey there, Jody Avergan here, and this is some Sunday context where we bring you episodes

new and from the archives to try and give you some context for what we are up to on the show in our

America 250 series. Now, one thing I want to flag for you is that starting next Sunday,

we have a really cool special series

of conversations coming throughout the month of June. It's a collaboration featuring a bunch

of incredible authors and historians, looking back at the power of books and the role of

history books in shaping America over the last 250 years. I'm very excited about it. I'm going to tell

you lots more about it starting

next week. But I just wanted to flag that this is a great time to join our newsletter community

as your support helps us do new projects like this one. We also have lots of bonus stuff coming

your way in June, especially for those of you who are paying subscribers to our newsletter.

And also remember that we have a live

show in Boston on June 24th that we are really excited about. So there's lots going on as we head

towards the 4th of July. Find out about it all at this daypod.com. But for today's Sunday context,

a conversation that I think will build in really interesting ways on the two-parter that we just did on the

Tulsa Massacre in 1921. And in that series, we talked about how the memory of the massacre and that

violence and maybe the chance for some lessons about how race inequality and racial violence in

this country operate, well, that conversation, that opportunity

was suppressed as the memory of what happened in Tulsa was buried.

So today, with this episode, we cut to about 45 years later after the long hot summer

of 1967 when the country saw a number of riots, rebellions, violence in black communities around the

country, and the Johnson administration commissioned a report on that violence that somewhat

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