This episode covers a broad swath of the American South ranging from the work of Ernest Withers in Memphis, Tennessee as discussed by his daughter Rosalind Withers, to Dallas and Fort Worth, Texas where Bob Ray Sanders and Norma Adams Wade talk about their extensive experiences working in the newspaper business.

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Image Credit: Ernest C. Withers (b. 1922, Memphis, TN; d. 2007, Memphis, TN), Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Rev. Ralph David Abernathy ride on one of the first desegregated buses, Montgomery, AL, 1956, printed 1994, gelatin silver print, 16 × 20 in. (40.6 × 50.8 cm), Carnegie Museum of Art,  The Henry L. Hillman Fund, 2025.7.9