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As the 70th anniversary of Rosa Parks' arrest approaches, John K. Bollard chronicles nearly 100 others who fought transportation segregation since the 1830s.
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The weeks before the Wright Brothers' historic 1903 flight were filled with broken shafts, fierce weather, and a three-day journey to North Carolina's Outer Banks.
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The Denison University Museum is holding a panel about 'The Ohio Country' podcast from noon to 1:00 p.m. on February 27. And we're releasing a bonus episode next week!
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Orlando Brown, a Black real estate developer in Ohio, dealt with backlash from his church and family when he built an apartment complex in his small village in the 60s.
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Charles Benning, a Black man from Yellow Springs, Ohio, dropped out of high school to join the army during WWII. He later participated in the D-Day invasion in France.
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The Brown v Board of Education decision concluded that racial segregation had no place in public school. Leanora Brown taught at Dayton Public Schools when that happened.
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Long before there were air ambulance companies like CareFlight, and TV shows like 'China Beach' and 'M*A*S*H,' Valérie André was flying rescue missions in combat zones.
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Black Korean War veteran Joe Lewis stood up to a racist bus driver in the Jim Crow South when he was working at Keesler Air Force Base in the 50s in Biloxi, Mississippi.
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In this episode of WYSO's Think Twice podcast, University of Dayton professor Bill Trollinger says the Christian Nationalist hate group, the Ku Klux Klan, terrorized Black, Catholic, and Jewish people in the 1920s.
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Historic interpreter Talon Silverhorn, of the Eastern Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma, spoke about Tecumseh’s legacy and invited Ohioans to rebuild authentic relationships with Shawnee people.
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The Ohio Country is a 12-episode podcast from the public media station WYSO about American Indian people reconnecting with their homelands in the Ohio River Valley.
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Greene County archivists revealed the contents of a time capsule recovered from the cornerstone of the former Greeneview South School in Jefferson Township. The school is set to be demolished later this year.