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The Flag and the Fury

Radiolab

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Are You Prepared to Give Up Your Name?

Lauren: One of the craziest moments in a sea of crazy is when a 17-year-old white girl with bright orange hair steps up to the mic. She says, "You are worthy of being tarred and feathered and running out of this state" Lauren asks where do some of these people get their ideas from? Ashton Pittman started to actually track down some of the people in the video. He discovered that most of them went to what's called segregation academies.

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