The Vanishing of Harry Pace: Episode 2

Radiolab

WNYC Studios

Science, Natural Sciences, History, Society & Culture, Documentary

4.6 • 43.5K Ratings

🗓️ 19 June 2021

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Dreams Deferred: Episode Two from The Vanishing of Harry Pace, a six-part series created by Jad Abumrad and Shima Oliaee.

The story of the post Black Swan years. We follow Harry’s Supreme Court battle to desegregate the South Side of Chicago, and then the mysterious decision which forces him into seclusion, before his untimely death.

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0:04.0	Please listen to Radio Lab.
0:07.0	Radio Lab.
0:08.0	From WNYC.
0:09.0	Okay, I'm Chad Ibum-Rod, here with.
0:10.1	She's Molly Ay.
0:11.1	Yes.
0:12.1	This is the vanishing of Harry Pace, a miniseries'
0:29.8	series on Radio Lab. This is episode two.
0:33.0	Quick recap. In the last episode we started with a family
0:38.8	secret. Oh my God. Oh my God. This is crazy. Can't believe this has been kept from us.
0:44.2	About a guy named Harry Pays, who it turned out was not an Italian mobster, but rather
0:48.7	African American, a light skinned black man from Covington, Georgia, who fell under the
0:52.8	tutelage of the great W.E.B. Du Bois and created America's first black-owned
0:59.6	record label. Just said the only records using exclusive Negro voices and
1:03.7	musicians. Almost a hundred years ago today. So we thought this is going to be a
1:08.4	series just about music, but what Harry does next is like,
1:13.6	who's is on a whole nother level? Like that's haunted. Trying to sort through
1:22.0	what that experiences like psychologically is very hard to do. It's a mystery.
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