This week we're traveling to 1940s Mississippi with Mudbound! Join us to learn more about the 761st Tank Battalion, whooping cough, cigarettes in the US military, Black veterans in the Jim Crow South, and more!

Content Warning: This episode includes discussions of lynching and other racist violence.

Sources:

The 761st Tank Battalion: "The Black Panthers Enter Combat: The 761st Tank Battalion, November 1944," National WWII History Museum. Available at https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/black-panthers-761st-tank-battalion Roger Cunningham, "761st Tank Battalion," On Point 9, 3 (2004) Walter Lewis, "A Brief History of the 761st Tank Battalion in World War II," Negro History Bulletin 25, 2 (1965) Cynthia Neverdon-Morton, "African Americans in WWII: A Pictorial Essay," Negro History Bulletin 51/57, 1/12 (1993)

Whooping Cough:

CDC, Immunology and Vaccine-Preventable Diseases--Pink Book--Pertussis https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/pubs/pinkbook/downloads/pert.pdf Nicolas Fanget, "Pertussis: a tale of two vaccines," Nature (28 September 2020). https://www.nature.com/articles/d42859-020-00013-8 E. Kuchar, M. Karlikowska-Skwarnik, S. Han, A. Nitsch-Osuch, "Pertussis: History of the Disease and Current Prevention Failure," Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology 934 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/5584_2016_21 Natalie Zarrelli, "Whooping Cough Killed 6,000 Kids a Year Before These Ex-Teachers Created a Vaccine," History (23 April 2019). https://www.history.com/news/whooping-cough-vaccine-pertussis-great-depression Harry M. Marks, "The Kendrick-Eldering-(Frost) pertussis vaccine field trial," Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine 100:5 (May 2007): 242-7. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1861415/ Carolyn G. Shapiro-Shapin, "Pearl Kendrick, Grace Eldering, and the Pertussis Vaccine," Emerging Infectious Diseases 16:8 (August 2010): 1273-8. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3298325/ Smithsonian Antibody Initiative, "Suppressing Whooping Cough," Smithsonian National Museum of American History. https://www.si.edu/spotlight/antibody-initiative/suppressing-whooping-cough Samuel X. Radbill, "Whooping Cough in Fact and Fancy," Bulletin of the History of Medicine 13:1 (January 1943): 33-53. https://www.jstor.org/stable/44449087

Black Veterans in the South After WWII:

PBS, "Terror and Triumph," The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow YouTube. https://youtu.be/vadRcW_r-SE Equal Justice Initiative, Lynching in America Targeting Black Veterans (2017). https://www.jstor.org/stable/resrep30689 Jennifer E. Brooks, "Winning the Peace: Georgia Veterans and the Struggle to Define the Political Legacy of World War II," The Journal of Southern History 66:3 (August 2000): 563-604. https://doi.org/10.2307/2587868 "L.R. Police Brutality Still Major Issue In Lives of Little Rock Negro People," Arkansas State Press (Little Rock, Arkansas), December 17, 1948: 1. Readex: African American Newspapers. Defender Washington Bureau, "Attacks on GIs Spur Anti-Lynch Bill Fight," The Chicago Defender (31 March 1945): 4. ProQuest. "Editor Witness to S.C. Slaying," The Pittsburgh Courier (24 August 1946) 1. ProQuest. NAACP file, 1947 http://online.sfsu.edu/cwaldrep/NAACP%20LC%20Copies%20%5B3%5D.pdf Kathy Lohr, "FBI Re-Examines 1946 Lynching," NPR https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5579862 Drunk History, "Stetson Kennedy Infiltrates the Ku Klux Klan (feat. Matt Walsh & Jason Ritter)" Comedy Central, YouTube (4 October 2019). https://youtu.be/-3VyPR0S0LM

Smoking in the US Military:

Stanford Collection of Tobacco Advertisements, available at http://tobacco.stanford.edu/tobacco_main/images.php?token2=fm_st188.php&token1=fm_img5558.php&theme_file=fm_mt023.php&theme_name=War%20&%20Aviation&subtheme_name=World%20War%20II Richard Gunderman, "Smoking Rates Have Fallen to an All-Time Low, But How Did They Ever Get So High? The Conversation, available at https://theconversation.com/smoking-rates-in-us-have-fallen-to-all-time-low-but-how-did-they-ever-get-so-high-107185#:~:text=During%20World%20War%20II%2C%20free,companies%20manufacture%20290%20billion%20cigarettes. Elizabeth Smith and Ruth Malone, "Everywhere the Soldier Will Be: Wartime Tobacco Promotion in the US Military," American Journal of Public Health 99, 9 (2009) Mona Chalabi, "Cigarettes or War: Which is the Biggest Killer?" The Guardian, available at https://www.theguardian.com/news/reality-check/2013/dec/18/cigarettes-or-war-which-is-the-biggest-killer Lysia Saad, "US Smoking Rate Still Coming Down," Gallup, available at https://news.gallup.com/poll/109048/us-smoking-rate-still-coming-down.aspx

Film Background:

Sundance Institute, "Mudbound," https://www.sundance.org/projects/mudbound Ramin Setoodeh, "Can Netflix Crash the Oscars with Dee Rees' 'Mudbound'?" Variety (5 September 2017). https://variety.com/2017/film/features/mudbound-dee-rees-netflix-oscars-1202545540/ Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mudbound_(film)