What Happened in Alabama?

Another View The Radio Show Podcast · Aug 15, 2024 · 54m

Jim Crow laws - laws that enforced legal racial segregation beginning in the late 1800's and lasting until the late '60's. These laws marginalized African Americans by denying them rights like voting, education and employment. These laws created generational trauma for Black families that linger into today. Meet award-winning journalist Lee Hawkins, who, through intimate stories of his own family on his podcast, "What Happened in Alabama", unpacks his family history and upbringing, his father's painful nightmares and past, and finally ends the cycle of trauma for himself and his family…