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This is Love

The Kinseys

This is Love

Vox Media Podcast Network

Society & Culture, Personal Journals

4.79.7K Ratings

🗓️ 14 October 2020

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Bernard Kinsey met Shirley Pooler in 1963, when they were both students at Florida A&M University, after a protest to integrate the movie theaters in Tallahassee. Years later, when their son Khalil was born, Bernard and Shirley made a plan — they wanted him to understand where he came from, and where his ancestors came from. So they decided to become detectives, uncovering the history of the Black experience in America. Say hello on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Sign up for our occasional newsletter, The Accomplice. Follow the show and review us on Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/2BmMZr5 We also make Criminal 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

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0:21.3

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0:25.0

This is a high-risk investment and you should not expect to be protected if something goes wrong.

0:31.0

I was kind of involved with organizing the demonstrations because the idea with the

0:36.8

civil rights movement in nonviolent protests was to fill the jails.

0:42.8

So Florida and there was a population of 3,000 students and everybody knew everybody and I was

0:50.3

pretty popular and I had got involved politically with the young

0:54.9

Democrat club. In the fall of 1963 Bernard Kinsey was a junior at Florida

1:02.0

A&M University in Tallahassee. He remembers dozens of students

1:07.2

would be arrested after every protest, and as one of the protest organizers, it was his job to meet the students when they were released from jail to make sure they were safe and knew their rights.

1:20.0

And that's how, one day in September of 1963, he met Shirley Pooler.

1:25.0

And I never will forget, I saw this pretty young lady, this cute young lady, you know, after, you know she she came out of jail and I you

1:36.1

know immediately was attracted to her my name is Shirley Pooler Kinsey

1:42.2

Shirley Rose Pooler. Pooler, Kinsey?

1:43.0

Shirley Rose, Pooler, Kinsey.

1:45.0

Shirley Pooler grew up in St. Augustine, Florida in the 1940s and 50s.

1:52.0

She was raised by her grandmother and attended segregated schools.

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