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Erika Simonds
Ernest A White (1894-1979), was the first Black person to go to Lewis and Clark High School in Spokane. After his discharge from the Army, he moved to Seattle where he built a home and worked 39 years for the U.S. Postal Service.
In this interview, Ernest discusses life during the First World War; the Depression and World War II; discrimination in housing and employment; the great migration of the 1940s in Seattle; and how the city changed after the second world war.
You can find White’s full interview with transcript, photos, and additional documents related to his life, at digitalarchives.wa.gov.
The cover photo for this episode is "Ernest White, Spokane, circa 1912;" photographer unknown, from the Washington State Archives. The music for this episode is Alabama Moon performed by Gladys Rice, released in 1920, from the UCSB Cylinder Audio Archive.
Women represent fewer than a quarter of criminal defendants in current-day London and a sliver of the prison population — but it wasn't always so. At the end of the 17th Century, half of the accused who appeared in the city's Old Bailey courtroom were women. Then, that number declined drastically over the course of the 18th Century. Historians are obsessed with figuring out this puzzle: Were women committing fewer crimes? Or were they simply not being arrested?
This podcast explores a single piece of that puzzle: How women's own voices contributed to perceptions of women criminals.
Voices in this episode are my own and those of Jacqueline Trout and Ben Simons. Music is Sonata in b minor by William Croft (1700) performed by Marjorie Lavers, violin, Jane Ryan, viola da gamba, and Robert Elliott, harpsichord; courtesy of the Baroque Music Library. Cover art is an engraving of Sarah Malcolm done by William Hogarth shortly before her execution, courtesy of Wikimedia Commons.
You can learn more about the women in this story at londonlives.com.
This wee podcast episode was created for an Intro to Historical Studies class assignment. The music is the classic Afrikaans lullaby "Suikerbossie" performed by Ora Dreyer.