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Podcast Episode: The Music in the Piney Woods
Pip: There's a version of Mississippi music history that fits neatly on a poster — Delta, blues, Chicago, fame. Samp, writing for Our Unique Stories,…
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The Music in the Piney Woods
Newton County, the Great Migration, and the Music That Went North When we think about Mississippi and African American music, the names seem almost endless.…
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Podcast Episode: The Story We Can’t Finish: The Death of Mack Treadwell
Pip: Sometimes a single scrap of newsprint is the only thing standing between a person and being forgotten entirely — and that's not a metaphor,…
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The Story We Can’t Finish: The Death of Mack Treadwell
How One Newspaper Clipping Preserved a Tragedy—but Not the Ending “Genealogy teaches us that not every story has an ending we can find.” A Single…
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Podcast Episode: “I Remember Being Sold”
Pip: There's a particular kind of history that doesn't live in courthouse files — it lives in the memory of a seven-year-old girl who never…
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“I Remember Being Sold”
Nancy Watkins Evans and the Last Living Memories of Slavery in Newton County “Memory is history carried in the heart.” A Childhood Memory That Never…
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Podcast Episode: “We Lost Our House for $100”
Pip: Census records can tell you a family lived somewhere in 1930 and somewhere else in 1940. What they cannot tell you is that a…
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“We Lost Our House for $100”
An Oral History of Survival During the Great Depression in Newton County, Mississippi “History lives not only in courthouse records and census books, but also…
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Podcast Episode: From Mississippi to Chicago’s West Side: The Unspoken Toll of the Great Migratio
Pip: A single line in a family tree — "1951, moved to Chicago" — holds a whole world of grief and hope that no census…
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From Mississippi to Chicago’s West Side: The Unspoken Toll of the Great Migration
What One 1992 Interview Reveals About the Dreams—and Heartbreak—of Mississippi’s Northern Migrants Between 1915 and 1970, more than six million African Americans left the South…
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Podcast Episode: The Voice That Time Almost Lost: Sitting on Aunt Mary’s Porch in Newton County
Pip: There is a version of history that lives in census columns and deed books, and then there is the version that was sitting on…
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The Voice That Time Almost Lost: Sitting on Aunt Mary’s Porch in Newton County
How a 101-year-old woman’s interview preserved one of Newton County’s last firsthand memories of slavery “It ain’t my goodness; it’s the goodness of de Lord.”…
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