Currently reading Parting the Waters America in the King Years 1954-1963 by Taylor Branch with my friend Gabe. I usually drop music I write and record into the show, instrumental style.
The PRC Show was created to entertain, make me a better person, and do something creative and constructive. Everyone now has a podcast, mine is mine, there are better. I'm a dad with two kids and work full time as a nurse.
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Chapter Seventeen: The Fall Of Ole Miss
SNCC office attacked, the struggle of registering people to vote, more church burning, King attacked, all the and more and the sage of James Meredith and Old Miss
In this chapter we learn:
-Who says “they should point their guns at us and then we could step aside.”
-What is the Council of Federated Organizations?
-Another example of Bob Moses acting calm as always.
-if it’s easy or difficult to register black people to vote in mississippi.
-what the capitalist class of Birmingham want from King and the SCLC
-more of Rockefeller trolling JFK
-what does the concept “remove the office, instead of the man” refer to.
-how MLK responds when he’s assaulted by a Nazi.
-the James Meredith Ole Miss registration saga / riot.
In this special episode with Josh and Sean, we hear the historic archival conversation between JFK and Governor of Mississippi Ross Barnett discuss the confrontation around black student James Meredith trying to register at the University of Mississippi.
9 Aug 2023
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Chapter 16 The Fireman’s Last Reprieve
My birthday show! Albany Part II.
We go back to Albany, it's the summer of 1962. King is in Albany Georgia, fighting segregation. What we learn:
-Why does King get let out of jail but is upset about it, and wants to stay in!
-Someone pees their pants and says “Nobody but the laundry man will know how scared I was.”
-Incident of King jumping out a window… and running away.
-I like avant garde jazz, but I do not like avant garde legal theory when it’s supporting white supremacy, but Gabe disagrees and says it’s common legal theory.
-King gets yelled at by SNCC leaders, how does it go, who is right, King or the youth? We’ll discuss.
-Is Governor Nelson Rockefeller trolling Kennedy?
-my favorite title of a chapter, and Branch’s writing last line!
-a character like a young Paul Cooley causes a problem.
16 Jan 2023
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Chapter 15 Hoover’s Triangle and King’s Machine
Old Sourpuss gets a mention (WEB DuBois), Kennedy and Hoover battle, Mob and Sex Scandal, Shuttlesworth in jail, triple church bombing, King gives a negative speech, we learn more about who Jack O’Dell is, more on the tension and rivalry in the Civil Rights movement organizations, Who is Harry Wachtel, Wiretapping of Stanley Levison, NAACP Convention, a racist coroner acts as a psychiatrist, does King go back to jail?
Intro Music: The Staple Singers “Freedom Highway” (1965).
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