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"Buried Truths"
Hank Klibanoff, Dave Barasoain and John Haas, WABE
In 1948 Isaiah Nixon, a black husband and father, exercised his right to vote in rural Georgia and was killed by white neighbors for doing so. Buried Truths season one tells Isaiah Nixon's story, unearthing a still-relevant tale of injustice, resilience and racism in the American South. Across six episodes, the podcast investigates voter suppression, southern sheriffs, racial myths and etiquette, the reliability of self-defense as an alibi, and the role of the black press.
Buried Truths doggedly excavates seven decades of history through interviews with Isaiah Nixon's daughter Dorothy, who saw her father gunned down, and with the families of the men who stood with him at the voting booth and the men who killed him. Aided by archival audio from segregationist politicians, deep investigation of FBI documents and NAACP reports, as well as a college student's discovery of Nixon's gravesite 67 years after the family lost track of it, Buried Truths shows that while we can't change our history, we can let it guide us to understanding. |