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Podcast Episode: Building Freedom: How Newton County’s Black Community Was Born After Emancipatio
Pip: There's a 1910 Mississippi newspaper article that quietly holds some of the earliest surviving accounts of how a community built itself from nothing —…
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Building Freedom: How Newton County’s Black Community Was Born After Emancipation
On a quiet page of a 1910 Newton County newspaper lies a remarkable glimpse into a world that had nearly disappeared from living memory. Titled…
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Podcast Episode: what’s in a name?
Pip: Our Unique Stories — where a birth certificate is a breadcrumb and a name is basically a whole family reunion compressed into two words.…
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what’s in a name?
How African American Families Preserved Their History Through Naming Traditions “A name is more than an identity. Sometimes it is an inheritance.” If you’ve read…
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Podcast Episode: the unwritten laws of newton county
Pip: A death certificate is supposed to close the file. For Richard Ware of Newton County, Mississippi, it reopened everything — and that's the kind…
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the unwritten laws of newton county
the unwritten laws of newton county what one man’s death certificate reveals about the jim crow south “History is not only the search for answers;…
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Podcast Episode: Rooted in Difficult Soil: why Challenges Shape Our Lives
Pip: There's a site called Our Unique Stories, and it takes that name seriously — the kind of seriously that makes you sit with a…
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Podcast Episode: Am I My Brother’s Keeper? The Forgotten Veteran and the African American Experience
Pip: There’s a question from Genesis that has outlasted empires, denominations, and apparently most of our civic planning — “Am I my brother’s keeper?” Samp…
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Am I My Brother’s Keeper? The Forgotten Veteran and the African American Experience
Am I My Brother’s Keeper? The Forgotten Veteran and the African American Experience “And the Lord said unto Cain, Where is Abel thy brother? And…
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Podcast Episode: The Record Keepers: How the Whitehead Women Wrote Black Mississippi
Pip: History has a way of remembering the loudest voices in the room — the editors, the firebrands, the names on the masthead. Our Unique…
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Podcast Episode: The “Robbery” at Hickory: Looking Again at a 1923 Account
Pip: Our Unique Stories has a way of finding the cases where the official version and the documented record don't quite line up — and…
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Podcast Episode: The Master of the Deed: How Allen Rigsby Outpaced the Crop-Lien System
Pip: There's a version of Black history in the post-Reconstruction South that ends with the crop-lien system winning. Samp, writing for Our Unique Stories, is…
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