Hey hey, our dear listeners!
We are so excited to bring you our fourth episode - the second in a series of three! - where we discuss how we protest for social change.
This week, Bella discusses what feelings came up for her while watching “Hidden Figures”, and why she views education as a form of protest.
We are listing the historical characters that are brought up in today's episode down below in hopes that this will help you on your journey with learning more about each of these characters and their legacy.
“Hidden Figures”
Katherine Johnson - NASA
In an interview with WHRO-TV, Johnson stated that she "didn't feel the segregation at NASA, because everybody there was doing research. You had a mission and you worked on it, and it was important to you to do your job ... and play bridge at lunch." She added: "I didn't feel any segregation. I knew it was there, but I didn't feel it."[24]
US President Thomas Jefferson
Smithsonian Magazine:Jefferson denounced the slave trade as an “execrable commerce ...this assemblage of horrors,” a “cruel war against human nature itself, violating its most sacred rights of life & liberties.” As historian John Chester Miller put it, “The inclusion of Jefferson’s strictures on slavery and the slave trade would have committed the United States to the abolition of slavery.”
How do you believe the above mentioned statements and then proceed to own 600 humans for unpaid labor during your lifetime?
Biddie Mason - a former slave traveling by foot, while pregnant, from Mississippi* (wrongly stated as Georgia in the podcast) to Los Angeles, California
Known for her charity to those less fortunate regardless of race or religious beliefs
Became one of the first African American women to own land in LA
In next week’s episode, Estar shares how she became more aware of her own political agency as an adult, and how she chooses to change the world around her. We also discuss our podcast logo and why we chose it. We look forward to sharing more with you all then!
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From,
Bella, Nyke, and Estar
