{"id":63710,"date":"2022-04-21T20:32:43","date_gmt":"2022-04-21T20:32:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=63710"},"modified":"2022-04-21T20:32:44","modified_gmt":"2022-04-21T20:32:44","slug":"how-one-civil-rights-activist-posed-as-a-white-man-in-order-to-investigate-lynchings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=63710","title":{"rendered":"How one Civil Rights activist posed as a white man in order to investigate lynchings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2022\/03\/30\/1089640442\/how-one-civil-rights-activist-posed-as-a-white-man-in-order-to-investigate-lynch\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>How one Civil Rights activist posed as a white man in order to investigate lynchings<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/programs\/fresh-air\/2022\/03\/30\/1089681514\/fresh-air-for-march-30-2022-how-a-civil-rights-leader-risked-his-life-to-investi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fresh Air<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">National Public Radio<\/a><br \/>\n2022-03-30<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DaveDaviesWHYY\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Dave Davies<\/strong><\/a>, Guest Host<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"NPR embedded audio player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/player\/embed\/1089640442\/1089713327\" width=\"95%\" height=\"290\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=62891\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>White Lies<\/em><\/a> author <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ajbaime\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A.J. Baime<\/a> tells the story of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Walter_Francis_White\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Walter White<\/a>, a light-skinned Black man whose ancestors had been enslaved. For years White risked his life investigating racial violence in the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Southern_United_States\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">South<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Listen to the story (00:42:04) and read the transcript <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2022\/03\/30\/1089640442\/how-one-civil-rights-activist-posed-as-a-white-man-in-order-to-investigate-lynch\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>White Lies author A.J. Baime tells the story of Walter White, a light-skinned Black man whose ancestors had been enslaved. For years White risked his life investigating racial violence in the South.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,2850,1245,459,8,6462,23674,20],"tags":[32839,17436,12552,2309,2833,28260,6786,1929,12553,20407],"class_list":["post-63710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-audio","category-biography","category-history","category-media-archive","category-passing-2","category-social-justice","category-usa","tag-a-j-baime","tag-dave-davies","tag-fresh-air","tag-national-public-radio","tag-npr","tag-walter-f-white","tag-walter-francis-white","tag-walter-white","tag-whyy","tag-whyy-fm"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63710","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=63710"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63710\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63711,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63710\/revisions\/63711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}