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January 27, 2024 63 mins

At the evening dance in the Kellerman's "playhouse," Baby and Neil show off their politics. 

+ High status US colleges  + Peace Corps in the 60s  + More on Bull Conner in Birmingham + The white Freedom Riders 

Works used and mentioned:

Breach of Peace: Portraits of the 1961 Mississippi Freedom Riders by Eric Etheridge

Behind the Magic Curtain: Secrets, Spies and Unsung White Allies of Birmingham’s Civil Rights Days by TK Thorne 

What You Can Do for Your Country: An Oral History of the Peace Corps by Karen Schwarz All You Need Is Love: The Peace Corps and the Spirit of the 1960s by Elizabeth Cobbs Hoffman A Towering Task: The Story of the Peace Corps directed by Alana DeJoseph

The Poison and the Tomb: One family's journey to their contaminated home by Kim Wall, Coleen Jose, and Jan Hendrik Hinzel

BEING BETTER AMERICANS AND DOING IT FOR THEM: THE PEACE CORPS IN MICRONESIA by Craig J. Severance

LA Times: How the U.S. betrayed the Marshall Islands, kindling the next nuclear disaster by Susanne Rust 

FBI Knew Policeman Was Leak to Klan on Freedom Riders by Paul Magnusson

1946 Bikini Atoll MGM film

1967 Peace Corps ad 

 

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