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Criminal

The Boycott

Criminal

Vox Media Podcast Network

True Crime, Society & Culture, Documentary

4.738.4K Ratings

🗓️ 14 January 2022

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

15 years after the Supreme Court ruled that school segregation was unconstitutional in Brown v. Board of Education, many schools across the South were still segregated. Some school districts actively blocked desegregation. North Carolina passed legislation authorizing tuition grants to white private schools, sometimes called "segregation academies." Members of the KKK held rallies in North Carolina, describing desegregation as "anti-Christian" and "communistic." When the Federal government pressured school boards to comply or lose their funding, many responded by shuttering Black schools and assigning Black students to formerly all-white schools. It was called "one-way desegregation." In a very rural part of North Carolina, Black students and their families decided to fight back. We speak with Dr. Dudley E. Flood about his work desegregating every school in North Carolina. Say hello on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Sign up for our occasional newsletter, The Accomplice. Follow the show and review us on Apple Podcasts: iTunes.com/CriminalShow. We also make This is Love and Phoebe Reads a Mystery. Artwork by Julienne Alexander. Check out our online shop. Episode transcripts are posted on our website. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Support for this show comes from Krakan.

0:03.0

Krypto is like the financial system, but different.

0:07.0

It doesn't care where you come from, what you look like, your credit score,

0:11.0

or your outrageous food delivery habits.

0:13.7

crypto is finance for everyone everywhere all the time.

0:18.4

Krakhan, see what crypto can be.

0:21.3

Don't invest unless you're prepared to lose all the money you invest.

0:25.0

This is a high-risk investment and you should not expect to be protected if something goes wrong. My name is Dudley Flood. I am a retired employee of the North Carolina Department of Public

0:39.8

Construction. I worked there for 21 years prior that I was a principal prior that I was a teacher

0:46.9

And prior to that I was just trying to figure out how the world works

1:01.2

I am 90 years old. I turned a 90 on the 13th of September. My father was born in 1890, who had been free only 20 years in 1890, so he had no opportunity to matriculate.

1:10.0

But his admonition to me was my job is to work.

1:14.0

He was a lumberjack.

1:15.2

My job is working lumber's.

1:17.2

Yours let's go to school.

1:19.1

Every day that you see me doing my job,

1:21.2

I expect you to do yours. And I was one of nine. I was eighth, which meant I had

1:27.6

no status, absolutely nine. I had five sisters, all of whom were older than I, two brothers older than I and one younger

1:35.8

than I, but he didn't pay me any mind either.

1:37.8

So I learned a whole lot about fitting in. And you gave a little thought, that is I gave little

1:44.9

thought to self. You thought you were part of a community. We hadn't officially

1:51.5

come into the word Negro and black and Afro and

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