Baboons, Beverages, and Billionaires, Oh My!

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12/11/22 • 33 min

You're seven years old, playing in your yard in Georgia when you suddenly realize that your imaginary dog is being stalked by a very real tiger. Now what?

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Mere months before the Spanish Flu strikes Atlanta it's just another day, but that all changes at noon May 21, 1917 when the city erupts in flames. The certainty is your house won't survive. But the question is, who will get it first--the fire or the mayor?

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Every grave has a start date and end date, but perhaps the most important thing is that little dash in between--the actual life a person led. Today, we go on strike with the Washing Society, a little movement that swelled with activists and laid the foundation for every movement that followed.
Referenced in this episode: "Joy My Freedom: Southern Black Women's Lives and Labors After the Civil War" by Tera W. Hunter.

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