Find out how “The Foul Mouth Reader fell in love with reading. It’s a journey of appreciation for those who inspired a world of learning, a love for learning Black history, and how reading is a weapon against white supremacy.

In this episode you will learn about

Lavar Burton / Reading Rainbow
The Stono Rebellion
Nat Turner
Anti-Literacy Laws
The creators of racial hierarchy: Christoph Meiner and Johann Blumenbach
The attack on Critical Race Theory in Texas


Information collected for this podcast came from:

https://www.readingrainbow.org/

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part1/1p284.html

https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/stono-rebellion-1739/

https://www.loc.gov/item/today-in-history/september-09/

https://www.thoughtco.com/what-really-happened-at-stono-rebellion-45410

https://www.history.com/topics/black-history/nat-turner

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part3/3p1518.html

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Nat-Turner

https://encyclopediavirginia.org/entries/turners-revolt-nat-1831/

https://www.history.com/news/nat-turner-rebellion-literacy-slavery

https://www.thirteen.org/wnet/slavery/experience/education/docs1.html

https://news.bloomberglaw.com/social-justice/texas-senate-votes-to-remove-required-lessons-on-civil-rights


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