The Racially Loaded Fishing Disput in Wisconsin

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There were parents coming from Chicago and Gary, Indiana looking for decent schools. They had nothing to do with the extra $18 or $11 a month or whatever it was. But if you get out from Madison, they think Madison is wildly integrated; when it's really very white place. Another long-running news story that fascinated Tim during his time up north was a racially loaded fishing dispute.

When it comes to America’s racial sins, past and present, a lot of us see people in one region of the country as guiltier than the rest. Host John Biewen spoke with some white Southern friends about that tendency. Part Six of our ongoing series, Seeing White. With recurring guest, Chenjerai Kumanyika.

Image: A lynching on Clarkson Street, New York City, during the Draft Riots of 1863. Credit: Greenwich Village Society of Historical Preservation.

Shannon Sullivan’s books, Revealing Whiteness and Good White People.

Thanks to Chris Julin, whose 1991 NPR report on the Wisconsin fishing rights dispute we featured.