Scene on Radio · Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University
S6 E5: A Way Forward
February 8, 2024·58 min·5 clips
Bertha Todd explains why Wilmington must lance the wound of 1898 to begin healing from its racist massacre.
As heard by us
A quiet, hard-eyed account of how Wilmington's past keeps structuring its present.
Mrs. Bertha Boykin-Todd carries the account through her move to Wilmington in 1952, and that memory gives the history a lived-in weight. The story moves from Jim Crow's daily pressures to Wilmington's 1898 white supremacist coup and the long reach of what followed, then keeps…
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You want Bertha Boykin-Todd's memory to meet Wilmington's long afterlife of 1898.
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