Racial Cleansing in America Podcast

The first podcast I listened to was about Thenonious Monk. He is a famous jazz musician from the south. His song "Little Rootie Tootie" has train sounds in it from his heritage. He moved to NYC when he was five, but still remembered the train sounds from his past. He says most people think that Jazz is a cosmopolitan inner city things, but it actually comes from the south. Thelonious Monk lived with his mother from the day that he was born to the day that she died. He grew up playing piano in his church. He says that he learned his sort of "taste" from his mother from her food to her clothing.

The next podcast I listened to was Racial Cleaning in America. Corbin, Kentucky is a very white run town. Laura Smith tells a story of when she was a child and they ran out of gas, so they got picked up by an African American. His mom lied to the man and told them they were actually from Williamsburg. This was because they didn't want the man to know they were from Corbin. Mrs. Boose was born in 1927. She tells a story of getting off the train and being scared to get of because the main train stop was in Corbin. The 1910 census shows that there were a total of 10 African Americans living in Corbin at the time. The blacks commuted there just to work on the railroad. There was a time called Red Summer when there was 25 race riots against the black. After this all but 3 African Americans were sent packing. This just goes to show you how bad the racism was back then.