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Margaret talks to Cristen Conger about an organizer who was the first Black American woman to own a newspaper and once scared off the Klan.
 
Source:
 
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-may-20-op-anderson20-story.html 
https://www.npr.org/2021/05/04/993605428/beneath-the-santa-monica-freeway-lies-the-erasure-of-sugar-hill 
https://americacomesalive.com/california-eagle-newspaper-black-readership-ahead-time/ 
https://www.pbs.org/blackpress/news_bios/ca_eagle.html 
https://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/tf6c60052d 
The Untold Story of Charlotta Spears Bass, Groundbreaking Politician, Nicole A. Mansfield 
https://www.history.com/articles/nat-turner-rebellion-literacy-slavery 
https://www.browndailyherald.com/article/2021/02/brown-s-first-black-female-graduate-ethel-robinson-s-legacy-on-college-hill 
https://ncph.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/Redlining-and-Racial-Covenants_pdfversion.pdf 
https://www.segregationbydesign.com/los-angeles/sugar-hill 
https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/progressive-party-platform-1948 
https://mutterhood.com/charlotta-bass/ 
https://www.blackwomenradicals.com/blog-feed/charlotta-spears-bass 
https://lamag.com/lahistory/charlotta-bass-kkk/ 
https://web.archive.org/web/20090819013517/http://www.socallib.org/SCLWebsite/hiseagle.htm 
https://www.myblackhistory.net/Charlotta_Bass.htm 
https://www.aaihs.org/charlotta-bass-and-the-cold-war-peace-movement/ 

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Part One: Charlotta Bass: The Black Journalist Who Refused the Red Scare

Margaret finishes up reading you a story about punks, growing up, and refusing to lose your edge

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CZM Book Club: Locust House, by Adam Gnade (Part Four of Four)

Margaret continuing talking to Joe Kassabian about how Robin Hood might not have been real, but bandits who supported the peasantry was.
 
Sources:
 
https://mercian-as.co.uk/chester.html
https://entertablementabroad.com/2026/06/sheriffs-and-shires-the-geography-of-governance/
https://www.nottinghamshire.gov.uk/culture-leisure/country-parks/history-of-sherwood-forest-robin-hood-and-major-oak
https://mercian-as.co.uk/about_sherwood.html
https://www.etymonline.com/word/tithe
https://www.etymonline.com/word/tour
https://www.jstor.org/stable/3678889
https://mercian-as.co.uk/outlaws.html
https://sites.nd.edu/manuscript-studies/tag/sloth/
https://www.medievalists.net/2021/05/piers-plowman-great-uprising-1381/
https://robinhoodlegend.com/the-legend/
https://web.archive.org/web/20201116124922/https://d.lib.rochester.edu/teams/text/gest-of-robyn-hode
https://traditionalbritain.org/blog/walter-scott-as-a-conservative-thinker/
https://web.archive.org/web/20201115204031/https://d.lib.rochester.edu/robin-hood/text/chandler-robin-hood-development-of-a-popular-hero
https://www.academia.edu/6274298/Robin_Hood_and_the_Social_Context_of_Late_Medieval_Archery
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/1911_Encyclop%C3%A6dia_Britannica/Robin_Hood

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Part Two: Robin Hood and the Legacy of Outlaws in Medieval England

Margaret talks to Joe Kassabian about how Robin Hood might not have been real, but bandits who supported the peasantry was
 
Sources:
 
https://mercian-as.co.uk/chester.html
https://entertablementabroad.com/2026/06/sheriffs-and-shires-the-geography-of-governance/
https://www.nottinghamshire.gov.uk/culture-leisure/country-parks/history-of-sherwood-forest-robin-hood-and-major-oak
https://mercian-as.co.uk/about_sherwood.html
https://www.etymonline.com/word/tithe
https://www.etymonline.com/word/tour
https://www.jstor.org/stable/3678889
https://mercian-as.co.uk/outlaws.html
https://sites.nd.edu/manuscript-studies/tag/sloth/
https://www.medievalists.net/2021/05/piers-plowman-great-uprising-1381/
https://robinhoodlegend.com/the-legend/
https://web.archive.org/web/20201116124922/https://d.lib.rochester.edu/teams/text/gest-of-robyn-hode
https://traditionalbritain.org/blog/walter-scott-as-a-conservative-thinker/
https://web.archive.org/web/20201115204031/https://d.lib.rochester.edu/robin-hood/text/chandler-robin-hood-development-of-a-popular-hero
https://www.academia.edu/6274298/Robin_Hood_and_the_Social_Context_of_Late_Medieval_Archery
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/1911_Encyclop%C3%A6dia_Britannica/Robin_Hood

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Part One: Robin Hood and the Legacy of Outlaws in Medieval England

Margaret continues the story of the last punk show played at Locust House

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CZM Book Club: Locust House, by Adam Gnade (Part Three of Four)

Margaret finished telling you about labor and class struggle in Ancient Egypt
 
Sources:
 
https://historyrise.com/article/slavery-and-forced-labor-and-comparative-history-across-egypt/
 
https://www.touregypt.net/featurestories/slaves.htm
 
https://www.touregypt.net/featurestories/medina.htm
 
https://www.ancient-egypt-online.com/ancient-egypt-kingdoms.html
 
https://vintage.tn/why-is-there-a-city-named-thebes-in-greece-and-a/
 
https://spokenpast.com/articles/egyptian-dream-book/
 
https://ancientegypt.fandom.com/wiki/Papyrus_Chester_Beatty_3
 
https://www.ancient-origins.net/myths-legends/egyptian-dream-book-001621
 
https://www.touregypt.net/kingtomb.htm
 
https://blogs.nature.com/houseofwisdom/2013/01/voluntary-slavery-ancient-egyptians-paid-a-monthly-fee-to-become-temple-slaves.html
 
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/jan/11/great-pyramid-tombs-slaves-egypt
 
https://www.thecollector.com/hatshepsut-egyptian-queen-king/
 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nitocris
 
https://historicaleve.com/how-many-cleopatras-were-there-in-egypt/
 
https://www.thecollector.com/interview-queen-cleopatra-with-prof-paul-cartledge-oxford/
 
https://www.workingnowandthen.com/blog/wage-theft-the-50-billion-crime-against-workers/
 
https://www.thecollector.com/how-ancient-egyptians-lived-and-worked-in-the-valley-of-kings/
 
https://www.google.be/books/edition/Brotherhood_of_Kings/JTvRCwAAQBAJ?hl=fr&gbpv=1&dq=chiefs+of+punt&pg=PA143&printsec=frontcover
 
https://www.wonderfulmuseums.com/museum/why-does-the-british-museum-not-return-artifacts/
 
https://www.history.com/articles/what-is-the-rosetta-stone
 
Oral correspondence
 
https://www.history.com/articles/mummy-unwrapping-parties-egyptomania
 
https://editions.covecollective.org/content/egypt-and-orientalism
 
https://everydayorientalism.wordpress.com/2023/08/11/orientalism-through-time-and-place-a-virtual-exhibit/
 
https://ninercommons.charlotte.edu/record/2825?v=pdf
 
https://www.worldhistory.org/article/1089/the-first-labor-strike-in-history/

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Part Two: The First Labor Strike: How the Tomb Builders of Deir El-Medina Started It All

Margaret talks to you about labor and class struggle in Ancient Egypt.
 
Sources:
 
https://historyrise.com/article/slavery-and-forced-labor-and-comparative-history-across-egypt/
 
https://www.touregypt.net/featurestories/slaves.htm
 
https://www.touregypt.net/featurestories/medina.htm
 
https://www.ancient-egypt-online.com/ancient-egypt-kingdoms.html
 
https://vintage.tn/why-is-there-a-city-named-thebes-in-greece-and-a/
 
https://spokenpast.com/articles/egyptian-dream-book/
 
https://ancientegypt.fandom.com/wiki/Papyrus_Chester_Beatty_3
 
https://www.ancient-origins.net/myths-legends/egyptian-dream-book-001621
 
https://www.touregypt.net/kingtomb.htm
 
https://blogs.nature.com/houseofwisdom/2013/01/voluntary-slavery-ancient-egyptians-paid-a-monthly-fee-to-become-temple-slaves.html
 
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/jan/11/great-pyramid-tombs-slaves-egypt
 
https://www.thecollector.com/hatshepsut-egyptian-queen-king/
 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nitocris
 
https://historicaleve.com/how-many-cleopatras-were-there-in-egypt/
 
https://www.thecollector.com/interview-queen-cleopatra-with-prof-paul-cartledge-oxford/
 
https://www.workingnowandthen.com/blog/wage-theft-the-50-billion-crime-against-workers/
 
https://www.thecollector.com/how-ancient-egyptians-lived-and-worked-in-the-valley-of-kings/
 
https://www.google.be/books/edition/Brotherhood_of_Kings/JTvRCwAAQBAJ?hl=fr&gbpv=1&dq=chiefs+of+punt&pg=PA143&printsec=frontcover
 
https://www.wonderfulmuseums.com/museum/why-does-the-british-museum-not-return-artifacts/
 
https://www.history.com/articles/what-is-the-rosetta-stone
 
Oral correspondence
 
https://www.history.com/articles/mummy-unwrapping-parties-egyptomania
 
https://editions.covecollective.org/content/egypt-and-orientalism
 
https://everydayorientalism.wordpress.com/2023/08/11/orientalism-through-time-and-place-a-virtual-exhibit/
 
https://ninercommons.charlotte.edu/record/2825?v=pdf
 
https://www.worldhistory.org/article/1089/the-first-labor-strike-in-history/

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Part One: The First Labor Strike: How the Tomb Builders of Deir El-Medina Started It All

Margaret continues reading to you from a novella about a punk house in 2002 San Diego

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CZM Book Club: Locust House, by Adam Gnade (Part Two of Four)

Margaret continues her talk with Bridget Todd about the origins of folk music and the man who dedicated his life to preserving traditional art.
 
Sources:
 
https://acousticguitar.com/alan-lomaxs-steel-string-discoveries/
https://pinemountainsettlement.net/biography-a-z/alan-and-elizabeth-lomax-visitors/
Alan Loman: The Man who Recorded the World, John Szwed
Bring Judgment Day: Reclaiming Lead Belly's Truths from Jim Crow's Lies, Sheila Curran Bernard
Andy Cohen, personal correspondence
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=loYoTc7Aw0A

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Part Two: Alan Lomax: How to Record Everything and Mostly Make the World Better in the Process

Margaret talks with Bridget Todd about the origins of folk music and the man who dedicated his life to preserving traditional art
 
Sources:
 
https://acousticguitar.com/alan-lomaxs-steel-string-discoveries/
https://pinemountainsettlement.net/biography-a-z/alan-and-elizabeth-lomax-visitors/
Alan Loman: The Man who Recorded the World, John Szwed
Bring Judgment Day: Reclaiming Lead Belly's Truths from Jim Crow's Lies, Sheila Curran Bernard
Andy Cohen, personal correspondence
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=loYoTc7Aw0A

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Part One: Alan Lomax: How to Record Everything and Mostly Make the World Better in the Process

Margaret continues her talk with Prop about the Texan musician who sung his way out of prison
 
Bring Judgment Day: Reclaiming Lead Belly’s Truths from Jim Crow’s Lies, Sheila Curran Bernard: https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/bring-judgment-day/63271E8000571D588BF52B0F7CA2121E (BJD26 for 20% off)
 
Sources:
 
Bring Judgment Day: Reclaiming Lead Belly’s Truths from Jim Crow’s Lies, Sheila Curran Bernard
 
https://www.nytimes.com/1962/05/20/archives/if-youre-woke-you-dig-it-no-mickey-mouse-can-be-expected-to-follow.html
 
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/local/2022/12/22/what-is-woke-meaning-naacp-leaders-talk-about-the-word-martin-st-lucie-indian-river-treasure-coast/8091099001/
 
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2023/03/09/what-is-woke-meaning/11425775002/
 
https://www.vox.com/culture/21437879/stay-woke-wokeness-history-origin-evolution-controversy
 
https://nmaahc.si.edu/explore/stories/scottsboro-boys
 
https://www.history.com/articles/scottsboro-boys
 
https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/ledbetter-huddie-leadbelly

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Part Two: Lead Belly: How a Man Named Huddie Ledbetter Beat Everyone Who Tried to Keep Him Down

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