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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Hey listeners, Nimini here, host of Historical Records. Get ready
to hear about a historical hero through hip hop. Also
parents and teachers. You can download a free activity related
to today's episode by visiting story pirates dot com, slash
Historical Records and now onto the show. After a few
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words for the grownups.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
Hey listeners, leave from the story Pirates here. I'm one
of the executive producers of Historical Records. What does executive
producer mean? I don't actually know, but I wanted to
take a minute to thank you for listening to Historical Records.
It has been such a blast to hear from so
many of you about what you're learning and enjoying about
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the historical figures we've introduced to you so far in
season one. We're taking a short break during the holidays
to finish up our final four epis episodes of the season,
but in the meantime, I thought it would be really
fun to put out some bonus episodes that feature the
songs from this season. A lot of times listeners want
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to hear certain songs on repeat, but it can be
hard or annoying to search through the episodes to find
out where the songs starts. So with today's episode, you
don't have to do that.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
Historical records.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
You are now listening to historical.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
To make history, you got to have struggles. To make history,
you got to show poise. Cannot be quiet loud as
a riot to make history, you gotta.
Speaker 4 (01:42):
Make some noise.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
One of my favorite things about hip hop is read
listening to songs so I can analyze and hear all
of the lyrics. The words can sometimes come pretty fast
and furious, so re listening and close listening is essential
to appreciating these incredible artists and the songs that we're
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so proud of. Today, we have for you the first
two songs from this season. Ida Tarbell and Claudette Colvin. First,
let's check out Ida, the trailblazing muckraker who basically invented
investigative journalism by taking down John Rockabella and his company
Standard Oil. I love this song because there are three
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different characters in it, Ida, Rockabella and the narrator. I
love how their three voices weave in and out of
each other, challenging each other, commenting on each other. So
while you listen, see if you can really track who
is singing or rapping in every moment and when they
pass the baton to each other or cut each other off.
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It's really fun to hear multiple perspectives in the same song.
And if you want to follow along with the lyrics,
which I definitely recommend, you can find them at story
pirates dot com slash Historical Records. After this first track,
I'll be back to point out a couple of things
I love about our song Claude at Covin. Here's Ida
Tarbell enjoy.
Speaker 4 (03:15):
This is the story of me I to Tarbell and
me jahn d Rockefeller and me a narrator.
Speaker 3 (03:24):
Let's begin, Shall we open your mind and imagine the
time we're.
Speaker 5 (03:28):
In the quality Italian poverty of the rides, which is
holded by a small corn group monop believe not on
the game board, they be up inside the boardroom. And
the newspaper's supposed to be mad are only interested in
profiting the news to an ad break field of pocket,
while the poor Gadenfield with braids that's living life day
to day in the guilded age sun up the century
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nineteen oh one, do your things of power but in
troubling the long run journalism, Yella and the well control
by fellas, just like John d Rockefeller man the people
need a truth telling. Some would sell the an extra
special writer with the quality is a true from perseverance
up inside the A fighter for the week two, the
strong one named Cabida, last.
Speaker 4 (04:08):
Name Tarbell, first name Ia, lifting up the meag like
a park.
Speaker 3 (04:19):
And suring off nanteism. So where.
Speaker 6 (04:25):
Breaking all the punch. She's a journalistic marble, but making.
Speaker 7 (04:31):
Sure I always stay impartial. When I was a youth,
my dad was part of the crew of small oil
well producers using rail to move crude until a dude
named Rockefeler came through and pulled a cup, made.
Speaker 3 (04:42):
A truce with the trains and soon the crew and
it was screwed.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
Oh.
Speaker 7 (04:45):
I was mad, but had no way to make come up,
and was just a young girl in the lower class.
Speaker 3 (04:49):
I was mailing upper crush.
Speaker 5 (04:50):
He had to take the punches, wait with faded breadth
and other trusts.
Speaker 7 (04:53):
Stunning hard and bide my time till I could throw
my upper Listen.
Speaker 3 (04:56):
Meanwhile, meet John d ib came a true taking up
the industry. Some called them Robert Barron because he swindled
to a massive.
Speaker 4 (05:04):
When most were taken in by my big fortune and
my charities.
Speaker 7 (05:08):
Yes, my foils sounded Standard Oil, and soon he had
more money than the royals, while I toil in Paris
depending her pieces to noble claim. If this quick early
anybody out there even knew the name?
Speaker 3 (05:21):
Printing up the meat like the park.
Speaker 6 (05:27):
It suing off ronandeism far well, breaking all the mud.
She's a journalistic marvel.
Speaker 4 (05:38):
But making sure I always stay impartial.
Speaker 5 (05:41):
Aida as a writer wasnacious, adacious, appetite for research, respirations basic.
Speaker 3 (05:47):
Only a matter of time before she.
Speaker 5 (05:48):
Set her best investigated fills on the man from her past.
Speaker 7 (05:52):
John Rockefeller, who do my dad back in the day,
became the subject of My magazine's next.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
Expans see we got ourselves a showdown now you could
call it high knew writer with the grubs.
Speaker 3 (06:02):
The big budget Tyhu.
Speaker 5 (06:04):
Night is on the case, learning anything she can learn, documents.
Speaker 4 (06:07):
Photographs, I've even talked to inter the biggest.
Speaker 5 (06:10):
Breaker ride when she interviewed John number two told me
everything we talked to Henry.
Speaker 3 (06:14):
Oh that's bad news.
Speaker 5 (06:15):
The series came in nineteen parts of Standard Oil's History.
Speaker 3 (06:18):
A backroom Deal's corruption fraud.
Speaker 7 (06:19):
It finally solved the mystery of how dundee to fraud
it dat I got revenge from my high line and
taught the world the name of the woman on the byeline.
Speaker 3 (06:29):
Bringing up the league like a bar and sharing off
right intertisms are well breaking all the muss. She's a
journalistic marvel.
Speaker 4 (06:46):
But making sure I always stay impartial.
Speaker 3 (06:48):
Results wasn't led to justice the law. I'm more robust
than the sherman neck. I passed stand and busted all
the trust up.
Speaker 7 (06:55):
People's trusting journalists adjusted, and the huckster Rockefeller lost his luster.
Speaker 3 (07:00):
A true printing up the meat like the part.
Speaker 5 (07:09):
Taking down the pluocratic cartel.
Speaker 3 (07:11):
No fear breaking all the up. She's a journalistic marvel.
Speaker 4 (07:20):
I guess I wasn't always so impartial.
Speaker 5 (07:23):
Yeah, yeah, she really she really was not that impartial
at all.
Speaker 3 (07:28):
Yeah, I'm the narrator. I'm saying that she was not impartial,
and she really did. She really didn't take you down.
Speaker 5 (07:34):
Bro?
Speaker 4 (07:34):
Can we agree you had it coming?
Speaker 3 (07:36):
Though? Yeah? I was corrupt, okay, didn't correct thing it coming.
I should be in jail forever.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
Yeah, no, of course, i'd I'm with one hundred percent
agree with you Ida, I had it coming.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
We'll be right back after a few words for the
grown ups.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
Hey, Lee here again. Now I want to play for
you our song from episode two Claudette Colvin. Now, this
is a song where I really recommend checking out the lyrics.
She'd as you listen, because Nimini is rapping so fast
and with so much emotion, it could be easy to
miss some of the words, especially when you start hearing
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the beat. Now what do I mean by beat? It's
the music that Niminy's rapping over. In this case, the
beat was made by one of our music supervisors named
Stroe Elliott, who is a member of the Roots. Here's
what I recommend. Listen to this song twice in a row.
The first time, just listen to the beat. Nimini's words
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will flow right over and through you, but put your
ears primarily on the music behind her words. What instruments
do you hear? What are the drums doing? The music
stro made tells the story all its own. Now listen
second time, this time with the lyric sheet in front
of you, and focus on the words. How did focusing
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on the music the first time change the way you're
hearing the words? What emotions do you hear in Nimini's
voice as she sings and raps. And how does that
influence your understanding of Claude Atte's story. Remember you can
find the lyric sheet by visiting story pirates dot com
slash historical records. Enough for me, enjoy the song. Here's
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Claude at Colvin.
Speaker 3 (09:39):
Claudett.
Speaker 1 (09:40):
That's my name, Miss Alabama, born and raised this Montgomery
to be specific.
Speaker 4 (09:45):
Hope you don't mind bet on the risks.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
Zero nine, zero five thirty nine, the birthdate of a
few deleted civil rights activistic catalyst to be Montgomery Bus boycott.
Speaker 3 (09:55):
Began with me.
Speaker 4 (09:55):
Montgomery Bus Boycott. That is correct.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
A lot of people don't know about this juicy tidbit.
I couldn't be the face of the movement because I
wasn't ridging because of my complexion. I'm never in the press,
just thinking I was only fifteen, fellow with my routine.
Speaker 4 (10:06):
And a segregatote.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
Years after that, a curves, I couldn't find work, and
I moved to New York and got the nurse.
Speaker 3 (10:12):
It began woman nine before it was Claude Corvin and
the beginning woman. Did you know this?
Speaker 1 (10:23):
You know I wouldn't give up my seat nine months
before ros.
Speaker 3 (10:28):
He was Claude Gorman.
Speaker 1 (10:29):
Let me start from the beginning. My dad left, Mama's
wallet was sin me see. I was born Claude dead Austin.
Then I went to live with my uncle and my aunt,
and that's how I got the name.
Speaker 3 (10:39):
Colvin.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
Had a little sister e. I was like, oh this
lost her to poly yoga. Only knows my pain. I
was so fa yo logically strange.
Speaker 4 (10:46):
Looking to Washington High School.
Speaker 1 (10:48):
I started going there in nineteen fifty two. I was
in the city, a place I couldn't watch too so
right in the buses, what I had to do.
Speaker 3 (10:54):
It was nineteen fifty five. I didn't give up my seat.
Speaker 1 (10:56):
They called the police and they arrested in me. But
I had been learning that by my anth Street and
then the youth count.
Speaker 4 (11:01):
With ina A.
Speaker 1 (11:02):
Steve pat So what said, I know my constitutional race.
There was an empty rubberside and he said, this isn't right.
Jim Cross, that black, consider crossrom the white.
Speaker 4 (11:08):
We always got to be behind.
Speaker 1 (11:10):
Them and this sudd I'm like, put me off the plus.
I didn't fight work, but I didn't feel fear because
I was young and tough. To put me in an
adult fell with no phone call, but my friends went
to find my mom.
Speaker 3 (11:18):
And it began with me nam before there was Claude Covin,
and it began with me, did you know?
Speaker 7 (11:29):
Did you know?
Speaker 4 (11:31):
I wouldn't give.
Speaker 3 (11:31):
Up my seat? Name before brother. One year later, we
had brought a versus Gail.
Speaker 1 (11:39):
I was one of five plaintifs talking about how the
law had failed out the bust and we wasn't gonna
take get a federal court. They made that decision, the
Supreme Court. They made that decision and the bus segregation
was against the constitution, and.
Speaker 4 (11:50):
They ended the permanent lead. And it began with MENI.
Speaker 1 (11:58):
There was Claude Covin, and the begin with me, I
wouldn't give up that's my name, Miss Alabama born and.
Speaker 4 (12:18):
Given again with me oh I almost forgot.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
The city of Montgomery, Alabama declared Mark second Claudette Colvin Day.
Speaker 2 (12:38):
Hey Lee again, thanks for listening. We'll be back next
week with another bonus episode. In the meantime, if you're
enjoying the show Grown Ups, maybe tell a friend about it.
It really helps us a lot.
Speaker 7 (12:51):
Bye.