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Buried Bones - a historical true crime podcast with Kate Winkler Dawson and Paul Holes
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The Great Migration - A Case Study
This case is set in the late 1800s in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. By the end of the 19th century, a lot of black Americans had already relocated to Western Pennsylvania because they were promised all kinds of work. But of course, then they would arrive and they were mostly exploited and underpaid. This involves a man named Albert Davis who's 48 years old, a black man who arrived in Pennsylvania. We don't know much about his background but we'll see what you say.
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