Buried Truths

By WABESociety & Culture True Crime History

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Buried Truths episodes

August 02, 2023 “There will never be closure” | S4 E10
Buried Truths Live, Part I: a special evening onstage with the daughters of James Brazier, who share the pain of his loss some 60 years after their father died.
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50 min
August 02, 2023 “My world just stopped turning” | S4 E11
Buried Truths Live, Part 2: Our special event continues with a conversation between Hank and Kelley Stinson, granddaughter of the policeman who killed James Brazier.
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42 min
April 05, 2023 “I’m not brave like you” | S4 E9
An anonymous letter in the files of Donald Lee Hollowell captures white attitudes in the South. Some whites harbored no hatred for Black people but were too afraid to say so. What about today? And tomorrow?
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1 hr 2 min
March 29, 2023 A season of fire | S4 E8
Voting rights activists in Terrell are met with shootings and arson, attracting the attention of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Jackie Robinson and an angry President Kennedy.
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52 min
March 22, 2023 Courtroom drama | S4 E7
Penniless and heartbroken, Hattie Bell Brazier pulls the only lever of power available to her: she sues Mathews and Cherry in federal court, setting up a tense battle between leading lawyers for and against civil rights.
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50 min
March 15, 2023 The unexpected email | S4 E6
James Brazier’s family will never forget his killing, but what about the family of Weyman Cherry? His granddaughter reaches out to us after learning of his brutal racism. She accepts the truth but struggles with it.
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29 min
March 08, 2023 Light in the heart of darkness | S4 E5
An underground railroad of information smuggles the story of Terrible Terrell out of Georgia and onto the Washington Post’s front page.
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50 min
March 01, 2023 The vanishing knife | S4 E4
The police said Willie Countryman had a knife, but did he? And his girlfriend is left to wonder about his love for her.
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50 min
February 22, 2023 The witnesses in the jail | S4 E3
The cops had already hurt James Brazier when they arrested him and took him to jail. But they returned late that night to finish him.
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38 min
February 22, 2023 The police come for James Brazier | S4 E2
On one April day, three generations of the Brazier family, including 10-year-old James Jr., were beaten by white Dawson police.
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38 min

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“Buried Truths” acknowledges and unearths still-relevant stories of injustice, racism, and resistance in the American South. We can’t change our history, but we can let it guide us to…