Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff

Part Two: Charlotta Bass: The Black Journalist Who Refused the Red Scare

Margaret finishes her talk with Cristen Conger about an organizer who was the first Black American woman to own a newspaper and once scared off the Klan Sources: https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-may-20-op-anderson20-story.html [https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-may-20-op-anderson20-story.html]  https://www.npr.org/2021/05/04/993605428/beneath-the-santa-monica-freeway-lies-the-erasure-of-sugar-hill [https://www.npr.org/2021/05/04/993605428/beneath-the-santa-monica-freeway-lies-the-erasure-of-sugar-hill]  https://americacomesalive.com/california-eagle-newspaper-black-readership-ahead-time/ [https://americacomesalive.com/california-eagle-newspaper-black-readership-ahead-time/]  https://www.pbs.org/blackpress/news_bios/ca_eagle.html [https://www.pbs.org/blackpress/news_bios/ca_eagle.html]  https://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/tf6c60052d [https://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/tf6c60052d]  The Untold Story of Charlotta Spears Bass, Groundbreaking Politician, Nicole A. Mansfield https://www.history.com/articles/nat-turner-rebellion-literacy-slavery [https://www.history.com/articles/nat-turner-rebellion-literacy-slavery]  https://www.browndailyherald.com/article/2021/02/brown-s-first-black-female-graduate-ethel-robinson-s-legacy-on-college-hill [https://www.browndailyherald.com/article/2021/02/brown-s-first-black-female-graduate-ethel-robinson-s-legacy-on-college-hill]  https://ncph.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/Redlining-and-Racial-Covenants_pdfversion.pdf [https://ncph.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/Redlining-and-Racial-Covenants_pdfversion.pdf]  https://www.segregationbydesign.com/los-angeles/sugar-hill [https://www.segregationbydesign.com/los-angeles/sugar-hill]  https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/progressive-party-platform-1948 [https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/progressive-party-platform-1948]  https://mutterhood.com/charlotta-bass/ [https://mutterhood.com/charlotta-bass/]  https://www.blackwomenradicals.com/blog-feed/charlotta-spears-bass [https://www.blackwomenradicals.com/blog-feed/charlotta-spears-bass]  https://lamag.com/lahistory/charlotta-bass-kkk/ [https://lamag.com/lahistory/charlotta-bass-kkk/]  https://web.archive.org/web/20090819013517/http://www.socallib.org/SCLWebsite/hiseagle.htm [https://web.archive.org/web/20090819013517/http://www.socallib.org/SCLWebsite/hiseagle.htm]  https://www.myblackhistory.net/Charlotta_Bass.htm [https://www.myblackhistory.net/Charlotta_Bass.htm]  https://www.aaihs.org/charlotta-bass-and-the-cold-war-peace-movement/ [https://www.aaihs.org/charlotta-bass-and-the-cold-war-peace-movement/]  See omnystudio.com/listener [https://omnystudio.com/listener] for privacy information.

Part One: Charlotta Bass: The Black Journalist Who Refused the Red Scare

Margaret talks to Cristen Conger about an organizer who was the first Black American woman to own a newspaper and once scared off the Klan. Source: https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-may-20-op-anderson20-story.html [https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-may-20-op-anderson20-story.html]  https://www.npr.org/2021/05/04/993605428/beneath-the-santa-monica-freeway-lies-the-erasure-of-sugar-hill [https://www.npr.org/2021/05/04/993605428/beneath-the-santa-monica-freeway-lies-the-erasure-of-sugar-hill]  https://americacomesalive.com/california-eagle-newspaper-black-readership-ahead-time/ [https://americacomesalive.com/california-eagle-newspaper-black-readership-ahead-time/]  https://www.pbs.org/blackpress/news_bios/ca_eagle.html [https://www.pbs.org/blackpress/news_bios/ca_eagle.html]  https://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/tf6c60052d [https://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/tf6c60052d]  The Untold Story of Charlotta Spears Bass, Groundbreaking Politician, Nicole A. Mansfield  https://www.history.com/articles/nat-turner-rebellion-literacy-slavery [https://www.history.com/articles/nat-turner-rebellion-literacy-slavery]  https://www.browndailyherald.com/article/2021/02/brown-s-first-black-female-graduate-ethel-robinson-s-legacy-on-college-hill [https://www.browndailyherald.com/article/2021/02/brown-s-first-black-female-graduate-ethel-robinson-s-legacy-on-college-hill]  https://ncph.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/Redlining-and-Racial-Covenants_pdfversion.pdf [https://ncph.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/Redlining-and-Racial-Covenants_pdfversion.pdf]  https://www.segregationbydesign.com/los-angeles/sugar-hill [https://www.segregationbydesign.com/los-angeles/sugar-hill]  https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/progressive-party-platform-1948 [https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/progressive-party-platform-1948]  https://mutterhood.com/charlotta-bass/ [https://mutterhood.com/charlotta-bass/]  https://www.blackwomenradicals.com/blog-feed/charlotta-spears-bass [https://www.blackwomenradicals.com/blog-feed/charlotta-spears-bass]  https://lamag.com/lahistory/charlotta-bass-kkk/ [https://lamag.com/lahistory/charlotta-bass-kkk/]  https://web.archive.org/web/20090819013517/http://www.socallib.org/SCLWebsite/hiseagle.htm [https://web.archive.org/web/20090819013517/http://www.socallib.org/SCLWebsite/hiseagle.htm]  https://www.myblackhistory.net/Charlotta_Bass.htm [https://www.myblackhistory.net/Charlotta_Bass.htm]  https://www.aaihs.org/charlotta-bass-and-the-cold-war-peace-movement/ [https://www.aaihs.org/charlotta-bass-and-the-cold-war-peace-movement/]  See omnystudio.com/listener [https://omnystudio.com/listener] for privacy information.

CZM Book Club: Locust House, by Adam Gnade (Part Four of Four)

Margaret finishes up reading you a story about punks, growing up, and refusing to lose your edge See omnystudio.com/listener [https://omnystudio.com/listener] for privacy information.

Part Two: Robin Hood and the Legacy of Outlaws in Medieval England

Margaret continuing talking to Joe Kassabian about how Robin Hood might not have been real, but bandits who supported the peasantry was. Sources: https://mercian-as.co.uk/chester.html https://entertablementabroad.com/2026/06/sheriffs-and-shires-the-geography-of-governance/ https://www.nottinghamshire.gov.uk/culture-leisure/country-parks/history-of-sherwood-forest-robin-hood-and-major-oak https://mercian-as.co.uk/about_sherwood.html https://www.etymonline.com/word/tithe https://www.etymonline.com/word/tour https://www.jstor.org/stable/3678889 https://mercian-as.co.uk/outlaws.html https://sites.nd.edu/manuscript-studies/tag/sloth/ https://www.medievalists.net/2021/05/piers-plowman-great-uprising-1381/ https://robinhoodlegend.com/the-legend/ https://web.archive.org/web/20201116124922/https://d.lib.rochester.edu/teams/text/gest-of-robyn-hode https://traditionalbritain.org/blog/walter-scott-as-a-conservative-thinker/ https://web.archive.org/web/20201115204031/https://d.lib.rochester.edu/robin-hood/text/chandler-robin-hood-development-of-a-popular-hero https://www.academia.edu/6274298/Robin_Hood_and_the_Social_Context_of_Late_Medieval_Archery https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/1911_Encyclop%C3%A6dia_Britannica/Robin_Hood See omnystudio.com/listener [https://omnystudio.com/listener] for privacy information.

Part One: Robin Hood and the Legacy of Outlaws in Medieval England

Margaret talks to Joe Kassabian about how Robin Hood might not have been real, but bandits who supported the peasantry was Sources: https://mercian-as.co.uk/chester.html https://entertablementabroad.com/2026/06/sheriffs-and-shires-the-geography-of-governance/ https://www.nottinghamshire.gov.uk/culture-leisure/country-parks/history-of-sherwood-forest-robin-hood-and-major-oak https://mercian-as.co.uk/about_sherwood.html https://www.etymonline.com/word/tithe https://www.etymonline.com/word/tour https://www.jstor.org/stable/3678889 https://mercian-as.co.uk/outlaws.html https://sites.nd.edu/manuscript-studies/tag/sloth/ https://www.medievalists.net/2021/05/piers-plowman-great-uprising-1381/ https://robinhoodlegend.com/the-legend/ https://web.archive.org/web/20201116124922/https://d.lib.rochester.edu/teams/text/gest-of-robyn-hode https://traditionalbritain.org/blog/walter-scott-as-a-conservative-thinker/ https://web.archive.org/web/20201115204031/https://d.lib.rochester.edu/robin-hood/text/chandler-robin-hood-development-of-a-popular-hero https://www.academia.edu/6274298/Robin_Hood_and_the_Social_Context_of_Late_Medieval_Archery https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/1911_Encyclop%C3%A6dia_Britannica/Robin_Hood See omnystudio.com/listener [https://omnystudio.com/listener] for privacy information.