Black History MonthThe Apple Seed • Season 2013, Episode 279
Feb 27, 2015 • 57m
Stories included in this episode:
Mitchell G. Capel
Story 1: William Carney
Teller: Mitchell G. Capel
Site: www.gjbug.com
Notes: An account of the first African-American soldier to be awarded the Medal of Honor.
Kate Dudding
Story 2: Being on The Outside
Teller: Kate Dudding
Site: www.katedudding.com
Notes: The stories of Wendell Smith and Jackie Robinson are intertwined in a momentous period in baseball history.
Interviews from storycorps.org
Interview 1: Ruth Ballard tells her minister, Ramonia Lee, about moving to Tuskegee, Alabama during World War II.
Interview 2: Roscoe Brown, Jr., telling his friend Javier Henriquez about being a Tuskegee Airman.
Interview 3: Alton Yates tells his daughter, Toni, about being part of a small group of Air Force volunteers who tested the effects of high speeds on the body, and helped prove that space travel was safe for humans.
Interview 4: A.P. Tureaud Jr. tells his friend Steven Walkley about becoming the first African-American undergraduate at Louisiana State University in 1953
Interview 5: Alton Yates tells his daughter, Toni, about being part of a small group of Air Force volunteers who tested the effects of high speeds on the body, and helped prove that space travel was safe for humans.
Interview 6: Frank Scott remembers his father, Wendell Scott, who was the first African-American NASCAR driver, and was posthumously inducted into the NASCAR Hall of Fame earlier this year.
Interview 7: Carl McNair remembers his brother, physicist Ronald E. McNair, who was the second African American to enter space who was aboard the NASA Challenger mission STS-51-L which tragically exploded on January 28, 1986.