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Old Time Radio drama from NBC Radio aired August 29, 1948. More than a story of a year, this radio drama was a metaphor for the end of congressional reconstruction of the South and the imposition of socially repressive controls over Blacks that would last a century. Here Durham dramatized the life of Charles Caldwell (1831-1875), a Black state senator in Mississippi following the Civil War—using Caldwell's assassination in late 1875 as symbolic of the lot of emancipated Blacks and their white supporters. https://much-ado.net/legislators/legislators/charles-caldwell/
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Old Time Radio drama from NBC Radio aired August 29, 1948. More than a story of a year, this radio drama was a metaphor for the end of congressional reconstruction of the South and the imposition of socially repressive controls over Blacks that would last a century. Here Durham dramatized the life of Charles Caldwell (1831-1875), a Black state senator in Mississippi following the Civil War—using Caldwell's assassination in late 1875 as symbolic of the lot of emancipated Blacks and their white supporters. https://much-ado.net/legislators/legislators/charles-caldwell/

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