Episode 5: The Other Tradition and Maryland Civil Rights
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...
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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.
Episode 4: The Other Tradition and Harriet Tubman's Fifth Cousin
Lex Musta tells the story of how Barbara Talley's Fourth Great Grandfather had a son Benjamin in 1787 in Dorchester County who would be manumitted fro...
Episode 3: The Multiracial DC Women Who Created the First Integrated Baha'i Community in America
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...
Episode 2: The 1919 DC Racial Pogrom and The Other Tradition
We 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...
Episode 1: Dr. Richard Thomas Introduces The Other Tradition
Lex Musta recalls his introduction to 'The Other Tradition' by Dr. Richard Thomas in 2012, Detroit: Race and Uneven Development (3:50), Focus Hope (7:...