StoryCorps

StoryCorps

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StoryCorps episodes

  • The Leesburg Stockade Girls
    In 1963, more than a dozen African American teenage girls were arrested for protesting segregation laws in Americus, Georgia. They spent one night in the county jail, but were quickly hauled outside the city, where they spent the next two months locked inside a stockade. In this episode, the Leesburg Girls shine a light on an overlooked moment in civil rights history.

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    13 min
  • Old Guitars and Purple Hearts
    In this week's episode, two stories of people reuniting with family treasures and the way that objects can live on long after a person is gone.

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    12 min
  • Santa Rick
    'Tis the season of reunions on the StoryCorps podcast, but we're bringing you something a little different for the holidays. In this week's episode, how one man's Jewish faith actually helped him find his spiritual calling... as Santa Claus.

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    12 min
  • Stubborn Love
    In this week's episode, a complicated reunion between a father and daughter, and a daughter's love—that exists alongside, and sometimes in spite of—her dad's mental illness.

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    13 min
  • A Son Always Remembers His Father
    After World War II, there was a radio program that reconnected people live on the air. It was called Reunion. In this episode, we'll revisit their very first broadcast, when Holocaust survivor Siegbert Freiberg was reunited with his father.

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    15 min
  • High School Reunion: Part 2
    After Dr. William Lynn Weaver's stories about integrating his high school aired on NPR, someone from the school's present reunited Lynn with his past. In part two, Lynn goes back to his alma mater for the first time in 50 years.

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    12 min
  • High School Reunion: Part 1
    Dr. William Lynn Weaver shares stories about integrating Knoxville, Tennessee's West High School in the mid-60s, and why he avoided the school for decades.

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    11 min
  • Barbara And Jeanne
    Two estranged friends reunite in a shelter and find home in an unexpected place.

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    26 min
  • When The World Is Exploding Around You
    On this Veterans Day episode, friendships forged on the battlefield and the road to reconnecting decades later.

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    11 min
  • I Always Meant To Tell You This
    What it's like to spend years searching for who you are, only to find an unexpected answer from someone you didn't even know you were looking for.

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    12 min

About StoryCorps

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Stories of the human heart. A candid, unscripted conversation between two people about what's really important in life: love, loss, family, friendship. When the world seems out of hand, tune in to…

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