The Vanishing of Harry Pace: Episode 2

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

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🗓️ 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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0:00.0	Okay.
0:04.0	Wait, you're listening.
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0:06.4	All right.
0:07.6	Okay.
0:09.0	All right.
0:10.4	You're listening to Radio Lab.
0:13.4	Radio Lab.
0:13.9	From W.N. Y.
0:15.9	C.
0:16.8	See?
0:17.1	Yeah.
0:19.9	Okay. I'm Jan. See?
0:26.2	Okay, I'm Jada Boomrod here with Shima Oliai.
0:27.4	Yes.
0:27.6	This is The Vanishing of Harry Pace, a miniseries on Radio Lab.
0:31.7	This is episode two.
0:35.8	Quick recap.
0:36.8	In the last episode, we started with a family secret. Oh, my. Oh my God. Oh my God. This is crazy. I can't believe this has been kept from us. About a guy named Harry Pace, who it turned out was not an Italian mobster, but rather African-American. A light-skinned black man from Covington, Georgia who fell under the tutelage of the great W.E.B. Du Bois. So it was a good beginning. And created America's first black-owned record
0:59.9	label. So the only records using exclusively Negro voices and musicians. Almost a hundred years
1:05.1	ago today. So we thought this is going to be a series just about music.
1:13.2	But what Harry does next... It's like, poof!
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