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Podcast: The C.O.W.S.
Episode: The C. O. W. S. w/ Warren Read: White Great Grandad Helped Lynch 3 Black Males #IsaacMcGhie #EliasClayton #ElmerJackson #JamesByrdJr #PulpFiction
Description: The Context of White Supremacy welcomes Warren Read. A White male, writer and educator, Mr. Warren is a Washington state native. Once again, James Loewen's Sundown Towns (Racially Restricted Regions) is instructive because many areas of Washington state and Minnesota where hostile to and/or prohibited the presence of black people. Read wrote about his White Grandfather, Louis Dondino, who participated in lynching thee black males in Duluth, Minnesota in 1920. Dondino served a brief stint in prison for his conviction of rioting (not murder) in this case. Read's book, The Lyncher in Me, is his account of this grizzly act...