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Podcast: The C.O.W.S.
Episode: The C. O. W. S. w/ Dr. Jack E. Davis: The Lynching of Jesse James Payne #YouBetterCallMeDoctorDavis
Description: The Context of White Supremacy welcomes Dr. Jack E. Davis. A Pulitzer Prize-winning author and a professor of history and Rothman Family Chair in the Humanities, specializing in environmental history and sustainability studies at the University of Florida, Mr. Davis has written a number a highly successful non-fiction books on the environment, the Gulf of Mexico and US history. Gus discovered his work while researching Florida's immense history of lynching black males. In 1989, Dr. Davis wrote, Whitewash in Florida The Lynching of Jesse James Payne and Its Aftermath. He details how "95%" of polled Florida Whites were "Kool & The Gang" with...