In Mississippi, Yazoo Clay keeps secrets.

Seven thousand bodies out there or more.

A forgotten asylum cemetery.

It was my family's mystery.

Shame, guilt, propriety, something keeps it all buried deep until it's not.

I'm Larison Campbell, and this is Under Yazoo Clay.

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Welcome to Stuff You Missed in History Class, a production of IHeart Radio.

Thank you. a production of IHeart Radio. Hello and welcome to the podcast.

I'm Tracy V. Wilson.

And I'm Holly Fry.

This is part two of our two-part episode

on the draft board raids

that took place in the United States

during the Vietnam War.

In part one, we gave an incredibly basic overview of the war

and why the U.S. was involved in it,

and some of the reasons why people were increasingly opposed to it as the war stretched on.

We also talked about some of the earliest incidents of vandalism at draft board offices,

which started in 1966 and 1967 as U.S. involvement in Vietnam was escalating, but before it had reached its peak.

It would be hard to overstate how deeply divisive these issues were and how incredibly

polarized the United States was during the Vietnam War. So much so that growing up in the aftermath

...