Saying Goodbye To The Kojo Nnamdi Show
On this last episode, we look back on 23 years of joyous, difficult and always informative conversation.
Virginia Foster Durr was probably best known as the civil rights activist who bailed Rosa Parks out of jail. But in her early life, she was almost expelled from Wellesley College for refusing to eat at the same table as an African American. A look at the life and letters of this intriguing woman.
Guests
- Patricia Sullivan Associate Professor of History and African American Studies, University of South Carolina; also Fellow at the WEB Du Bois Institute at Harvard University
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