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Podcast – Episode Three: Unrest

September 19, 2024 by We Are North Nashville

Barbara Jean Watson made history when she enrolled at the previously all-white Jones School in North Nashville. She and her family faced constant threats of violence as a result, and one night their back yard was firebombed. Her older sister Leitha Carter remembers how the family home became a hub of activity for the NAACP and SNCC. White opposition to desegregation was just one of the many destabilizing forces that shaped and shook the community throughout the Civil Rights era. Attorney Z. Alexander Looby's home was bombed. And the wider conflicts of the time also reverberated through the neighborhood, harbingers of more change yet to come.

Credits:

Hosted by M. Simone Boyd and Andrea Tudhope
Produced, mixed and edited by Andrea Tudhope
Original music by S-Wrap
Additional production by Steve Haruch

Category: Podcast Episode, Uncategorized

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