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Podcast: Spartanburg City News
Episode: What can we learn from examining Reconstruction-era violence in Spartanburg County?
Description: Last month, a local theater project, curated by Anna Abhau Elliott and Crystal Tennille Irby, highlighted one of Spartanburg's least understood historical periods, Reconstruction. "Untitled Reconstruction Project" is based on 1871 Congressional Joint Select Committee testimony of residents living in Spartanburg County who were terrorized by the Ku Klux Klan. For the project, interviews were adapted from the committee's report, part of a Federal investigation in which three Northern Congressmen interviewed freedmen, political organizers, white, black, rich, poor, town folks, and country folks throughout the South. Reconstruction in the Upstate was a bloody time when the Ku Klux Klan and other...