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Is This Land Your Land? (Season 1, Episode 9)
Podcast Episode | History

We hear two more stories of outsiders remaking themselves and California history. Eluard McDaniel left the Jim Crow South as a child, and remade himself as an activist and writer on the West Coast. His account of his life brought him ...See moreWe hear two more stories of outsiders remaking themselves and California history. Eluard McDaniel left the Jim Crow South as a child, and remade himself as an activist and writer on the West Coast. His account of his life brought him national attention when it appeared in a book of creative works by members of the Federal Writers' Project and Federal Art Project selected by Henry Alsberg. Miné Okubo was a rising artist with the Federal Art Project. When her family was detained in camps with over 100,000 other Japanese Americans in World War II, Okubo drew on her art and her life story to depict a hidden history of injustice in her book, Citizen 13660. Decades later, a culture of silence still surrounded that experience - until her book won a national award and became testimony that sought redress for Japanese Americans incarcerated during the war. See less
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Director
Writers
Michael May (story editing) | David A. Taylor (writer)
Producers
Andrea Kalin (producer) | James Mirabello (producer) | David A. Taylor (producer)
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Updated Sep 26, 2024

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Sep 26, 2024 (United States)

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