Finding Milton

S1 E10 - The Scottsboro Boys Scandal - Finding Milton podcast

March 25th 1931 On this day in Alabama, one of the most notorious civil rights controversies and judicial injustices in US history was ignited in a small, no-place town called Scottsboro. The shockwaves from the case of the Scottsboro Boys reached around the world, including when Milton Wright sat down for dinner with Adolf Hitler in the town of Heidelberg.

S1 E9 Milton tells his version - Part 2

In part 2 of looking at Milton SJ Wright's own version of the famous 1932 Heidelberg story, we look at what Hitler said and what they spoke about. This episode reveals how the sit-down dinner came about, and which black Americans the German leader had heard about.

S1 E8 Milton tells his version - Part 1

Having secured a copy of the seemingly only digital copy of Milton SJ Wright's 1950 article (thank you Emory University Library), we finally hear him tell the now famous story about his evening with Adolf Hitler. In the first of three parts, this episode of Finding Milton explores the story according to his own words -- making it the definitive account of what happened. But, having waited 18 years to speak out publicly, is everything the truth?

S1 E7 Heidelberg's Nazi Students and the Gumbel Case

Arriving in Heidelberg in the autumn of 1930, Milton SJ Wright will be entering a climate of increasing hostility and populism. Within months he find himself the direct target of attack and prejudice. At the same time, local student representatives of the NSDAP (Nazi) party are increasing their own vicious attacks through the student newspaper, Der Heidelberger Student, to attack a Jewish-German professor by the name of Emil Julius Gumbel. Their two lives begin to become intertwined from this moment on, as support for right-wing populism grows and grows.

S1 E6 Ebony Magazine June 1950 - The First-Person Article by Dr Milton SJ Wright

We finally go beyond the 1942 Pittsburgh Courier article and all the conflicting third-person tellings of this story by tracking down the full article written by Dr Milton SJ Wright himself. We locate the June 1950 edition of Ebony magazine and take a first look at what is revealed about the night Milton sat down for a four-hour conversation with Hitler that five-star hotel in Heidelberg.