116 – The Tale of the Flying Tailor

04/15/20 • 34 min

Today Jess tells us the story of Franz Reichelt, an Austrian man with the dream of making people safe. in the early 1900s, the rapidly growing hobby of airplane use demanded a safer parachute to protect pilots. Franz thought he was just the dressmaker for the job. The only problem was he didn’t have a plane or a way to really test his parachutes well. But necessity is the mother of invention! Check out this Wile E. Coyote-esque tale set in London just over 100 years ago!
Check out Franz’s Cool Suit!
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115 – A Man, A Hat, A Dream of Black Equality

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Joe gives us the overview of an often overlooked hero of the “first civil rights movement” that took place in the 1920s. Marcus Garvey is an excellent example of one of the many different approaches people had to gaining black equality at the early 20th century. Learn about how fancy hats, 30 year old ships, and befriending the KKK were all parts his his wild plans to attain black equality.
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117 – Green Corn and the Socialist Rebellion of Oklahoma

Joe delivers the goods on a bizarre uprising of socialist farmers in Oklahoma that formed just before the US went to war in WWI. Learn about their Americanized version of the socialist doctrine that led them to do some pretty weird things!

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