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Buried Truths

Buried Truths

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“Buried Truths” acknowledges and unearths still-relevant stories of injustice, racism, and resistance in the American South. We can’t change our history, but we can let it guide us to understanding. The podcast is hosted by journalist, professor, and Pulitzer-prize-winning author Hank Klibanoff.

2026 WABE Social Sciences True Crime World
Episodes
  • Introducing Buried Truths | S1 E0

    Introducing Buried Truths | S1 E0
    Jan 11 2018

    How are we going to keep them from the polls?

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    3 mins
  • Pistols | S1 E1

    Pistols | S1 E1
    Mar 26 2018

    After Primus King, a black barber and pastor, successfully sued the Democratic Party for denying his right to vote on the grounds of race and color, three-term Georgia Governor Eugene Talmadge declared, “This is a white man’s country and we must keep it so.” The best way to do so: “Pistols.”

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    38 mins
  • The Three Governors Controversy | S1 Bonus

    The Three Governors Controversy | S1 Bonus
    Mar 28 2018

    In 1946, Eugene Talmadge was elected to a fourth term as governor of Georgia, however, he died a month later, before he could take office. In a bizarre, almost-comedic turn of events, for two months, three men—Melvin Thompson, Ellis Arnall and Herman Talmadge, son of Eugene —would lay claim to the governor’s seat.

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    12 mins
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