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Episode Synopsis
This Black History Month episode of Count Time Podcast Living Legends first hand description of the Biloxi Beach Wade In, also known as Bloody Sunday. Living Legend Delores Yvonne Stewart Shealy and her sister Ruthie Lee Millsap give a riveting description of life for Blacks in the fifties and sixties in Mississippi. The Biloxi beach protest begins at 18:04. LISTEN to the Count Time Podcast episode: "Biloxi Beach Wade In" see notes, transcript, pictures and videos here.The Biloxi Wade-Ins were three protests that were conducted by African-Americans on the beaches of Biloxi, Mississippi between 1959 and 1963. The police stood by on April 24, 1960, as white mobs attacked Black beachgoers/protesters including elderly men, women and children. Whites attacked Blacks throughout the city into the evening. Ten times as many Blacks were arrested as whites during the day.This is our 50th Podcast!
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