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January 25, 2023 45 mins

Debrief episodes are for listener feedback on the previous scene and the hows and whys of making a podcast like this. In this episode:

  • Three stories about the Jim Crow era that felt special enough to share but had to be cut from the last episode
  • The ethics of paying documentary subjects
  • Why I hate the phrase "kill your darlings"
  • Plus I go on a journey with some tea biscuits  

Resources mentioned (and others that were used): Parting the Waters: America in the King Years 1954-1963 by Taylor Branch

Law, Society, Identity and the Making of the Jim Crow South: Travel and Segregation on Tennessee Railroads, 1875-1905 by Kenneth W. Mack

Dark Sky Rising: Reconstruction and the Dawn of Jim Crow by Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Tonya Bolden 

Ida B. the Queen: The Extraordinary Life and Legacy of Ida B. Wells by Michelle Duster

The Up Series 

Paris is Burning  Instagram ellie@buttoutbaby.com

Music by Claire Whitehead

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