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Part One: America's First Fascist Governor

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Garrison Davis is joined by Robert Evans to discuss Eugene Talmadge, the racist southern country lawyer who became a dictator.

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Sources:

The Wild Man From Sugar Creek by William Anderson
Race and Racism in the United States by Charles A. Gallagher, Cameron D. Lippard

Labor in the South by F. Ray Marshall

https://www.ajc.com/news/special-reports/when-georgia-had-three-governors-the-story-that-won-george-goodwin-journalism-prize/PNNohvV4spaPsd5lFSzbkK/ 
https://www.atlantahistorycenter.com/blog/the-three-governors-controversy/ 

https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna19251476 
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/feb/16/suspects-1946-moores-ford-bridge-georgia-mass-lynching-alive 
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/feb/17/naacp-cover-up-georgia-lynching 

 

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