Buying hot dogs was an act of resilience for my grandfather in the Jim Crow South

15/02/2024 4 min

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Episode Synopsis

George “Hot Dog” Moxley. A nickname born in the Jim Crow South and given to a boy who defied the unspoken laws of the time.RadioActive’s Nyla Moxley talked with her grandfather about the summer in Kentucky when he got the nickname.This story discusses racist violence.Episode webpage: https://www.kuow.org/stories/buying-hot-dogs-was-an-act-of-resilience-for-my-grandfather-in-the-jim-crow-south[RadioActive Youth Media is KUOW’s radio journalism and audio storytelling program for young people. This story was entirely youth-produced, from the writing to the audio editing.]

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