Tim Franks looks at the case of two prison inmates who have been held in solitary confinement in Louisiana for 40 years - believed to be the longest period of time in US history.
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NPR: 56 year old Cajun Music Record Store going out of business
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BBC Crossing Continents: The Angola Two
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Life As A ‘Symbol Of Integration’ In College : NPR
In 1953, A.P. Tureaud Jr. enrolled as a freshman at Louisiana State University, becoming the school’s first and only black undergraduate that year. Tureaud’s family had filed a lawsuit on his behalf. And as he recalls it, life on campus was anything but easy.
http://www.npr.org/2011/10/21/141549627/life-as-a-symbol-of-integration-in-college?ft=1
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46 Years Later: Justice for a Civil Rights Murder Victim
The American South caught political fire in 1964. Activism by local African-American organizations and college students from the North led to brutal murders at the hands of white Southerners. But many of the victims of the Civil Rights Movement were not members of political organizations or student committees. Louisiana native, Frank Morris, a Black shoe store owner who was burned alive by two white men in 1964, suffered simply because he was independent and served a racially mixed clientele.
Frank Morris’s case has gone unsolved for over forty-five years. But now, thanks to an investigation by the Civil Rights Cold Case Project and the determined editor of a local Louisiana paper, the case may be solved.
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The Moonlit Road: I Don’t Feel Dead Yet!
From Louisiana comes a classic African-American folktale about a suffering widow whose dead husband just won’t stay dead! (http://themoonlitroad.com/; http://themoonlitroad.libsyn.com/index.php?post_category=podcasts)
Featured on episode 111 of Forgotten Classics (http://hcforgottenclassics.blogspot.com)
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