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In his 1993 book Racial Unity: An Imperative for Social Progress, Dr. Richard Thomas, professor emeritus of history at Michigan State University, pioneers the race relations concept of the “other tradition,” which explains that the lasting advances in American race relations are the result of close, multiracial collaboration. Dr. Richard Thomas and Lex Musta use this podcast to further explore the other tradition to encourage our listeners to work for progress in race relations multiracially.
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Episode 5: The Other Tradition and Maryland Civil Rights
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February 23 2018 talk at the University of Maryland hosted by its Baha'i Club Lex Musta tells the interracial story of how the January 20th 1955 first-in-the-nation student-led sit-in integration of a lunch counter came about (6:00), led by Dr. Helen Hicks in Baltimore from Morgan State University. It was facilitated by the Congress of Racial Equal…
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Episode 4: The Other Tradition and Harriet Tubman's Fifth Cousin
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Racial Amity: It Runs In The Family March 2018 Talk at the home of Barbara TalleyBy Lex Musta & Dr. Richard Thomas
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Episode 3: The Multiracial DC Women Who Created the First Integrated Baha'i Community in America
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Lex Musta tells the story of how Charlotte Emily Brittingham Dixon received a three month sanctification in Princess Anne, MD in 1896 (3:15), and went to Chicago in search of the Manifestation of God she felt certain was upon the earth (5:10), she found Him in the person of Baha'u'llah and returned to the Southern United States to establish the DC …
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Episode 2: The 1919 DC Racial Pogrom and The Other Tradition
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Carrie Minor Johnson and Judge Siddons partner to save her lifeWe tell the story of how Carrie Minor Johnson grew up in Washington DC where the Other Tradition saved her and the city from the Racial Pogrom of 1919: Carrie Minor Johnson's Childhood on G Street (3:06), First Integrated US Baha'i Gathering on G Street in 1910 (4:36), 1919 DC Racial Po…
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Episode 1: Dr. Richard Thomas Introduces The Other Tradition
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Dr. Richard Thomas presents The Other Tradition at the 2012 National Race Amity ConferenceLex Musta recalls his introduction to 'The Other Tradition' by Dr. Richard Thomas in 2012, Detroit: Race and Uneven Development (3:50), Focus Hope (7:30), Detroit Interracial Cooperation after 1943 and 1967 Pogroms (8:45), Racial Unity: An Imperative for Socia…
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