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In 1948, three black farmers decided they’d had enough. They were going to vote in rural South Georgia, where white supremacists held power by suppressing the black vote. Pulitzer-Prize winn...
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Listen to Buried Truths, a Society & Culture podcast by WABE. Stream 66 episodes in English, follow new audio stories, and play episodes online on Radio and Podcast.
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The Trial | S5 E7
What happened inside of the courtroom when Joe Cameron stood trial for the murder of Reverend Pickett? The trial tells a deeper story about...
The Investigation | S5 E6
The Columbus police investigate one of their own, Joe Cameron in the Reverend Pickett's death and come up with a surprising conclusion. Mean...
“Absolutely no mercy” | S5 E5
Did the World War II battle of Peleliu, where more than 20,000 American and Japanese combatants fought on an island they could walk across,...
Medicine and Race | S5 E4
How medical myths about Black people led American health care to fail Clarence Pickett in 1957. It is a tragedy that, 70 years later, is sti...
"Baby, they done killed me" | S5 E3
Rev. Clarence Pickett's final days: his arrest, his beating and how he saw a doctor one day and was dead the next. For more, visit buriedtru...
The boy preacher | S5 E1
Rev. Clarence Horatious Pickett was a celebrated young pastor who developed behavioral problems that drew attention and arrests. But none sh...
"I still hear the screams" | S5 E2
After enthralling congregations for several years, Rev. Pickett landed in the Georgia state mental institution, then a county jail where the...
Season 5 | A Preacher, a Policeman, and a Physician | Trailer
Four days before Christmas in 1957, Clarence Horatious Pickett, a preacher and newspaper ad salesman in Columbus, Georgia, walked into town...
“The valley of dry bones” | S4 E12
Caroline Herring is a singer, songwriter and scholar of the South. She discusses the evolution of her music and of the song she wrote for Bu...
“My world just stopped turning” | S4 E11
Buried Truths Live, Part 2: Our special event continues with a conversation between Hank and Kelley Stinson, granddaughter of the policeman...
“There will never be closure” | S4 E10
Buried Truths Live, Part I: a special evening onstage with the daughters of James Brazier, who share the pain of his loss some 60 years afte...
“I’m not brave like you” | S4 E9
An anonymous letter in the files of Donald Lee Hollowell captures white attitudes in the South. Some whites harbored no hatred for Black peo...
A season of fire | S4 E8
Voting rights activists in Terrell are met with shootings and arson, attracting the attention of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Jackie Robinson...
Courtroom drama | S4 E7
Penniless and heartbroken, Hattie Bell Brazier pulls the only lever of power available to her: she sues Mathews and Cherry in federal court,...
The unexpected email | S4 E6
James Brazier’s family will never forget his killing, but what about the family of Weyman Cherry? His granddaughter reaches out to us after...
Light in the heart of darkness | S4 E5
An underground railroad of information smuggles the story of Terrible Terrell out of Georgia and onto the Washington Post’s front page.
The vanishing knife | S4 E4
The police said Willie Countryman had a knife, but did he? And his girlfriend is left to wonder about his love for her.
The witnesses in the jail | S4 E3
The cops had already hurt James Brazier when they arrested him and took him to jail. But they returned late that night to finish him.
The police come for James Brazier | S4 E2
On one April day, three generations of the Brazier family, including 10-year-old James Jr., were beaten by white Dawson police.
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