Episode 34: A Primer on White Supremacy: It’s About the Blood
Description
This podcast episode, “A Primer on White Supremacy: It’s About the Blood,” recounts two events in 1944 Mississippi history: the lynching of the Reverend Isaac Simmons; and Senator Theodore Bilbo’s speech on White Supremacy found in the Congressional Record. Content warning: descriptions of lynching, racial epithets.
Key Words: Racism, White Supremacy, Mississippi, Miscegenation, Lynching, Reverend Isaac Simmons, Eldridge Simmons, Theodore G. Bilbo, 78th Congress (1944), Take Your Choice: Separation or Mongrelization, Doctrine of White Supremacy, Chester M. Morgan, Redneck Liberal: Theodore G. Bilbo and the New Deal, Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Selected Works of Ida B. Wells-Barnett, “Lynching in America: Confronting the Legacy of Racial Terror,” Equal Justice Initiative (EJI), Property Theft, Historic Hate Crimes, Critical Race Theory, The Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project (CRRJ), Post-Script: Personal comment, Mississippi Senate Bill 2113, The Emmett Till Antilynching Act.
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