in a state with the fastest growing population in the country and an increasingly diverse population, getting more and more diverse all the time in florida cities that state in the 1950s was run by hard-line conservatives just from the rural parts of the state. very, very conservative state in terms of its governance in the 50s in the 1950s, the most prominent politicians in the flrd state government, they decided they would go after the naacp and they were going to make a big show of it bring the power of the state government to bear on going after and exposing and running to ground the naacp because they said the naacp was a bunch of communists the naacp was, of course, fighting for civil rights, for desegregation among other things florida conservatives and
florida tour from the naacp. just as governor ronald desantis is traveling the country to all the early voting states. perhaps assuming he doesn t have to become a good speaker if he can just keep waggling his finger like he s mad at them and saying the word woke over and over again and that s all he will need. that ll will do the trick for h him. it s funny not everybody hears the word the way you do the reason the stay woke tour kicked offer today is because today is june 19th aka juneteenth the confederate army lost the civil war, surrendered in 1865 it was not until june 19th, 1865, when the union army came to galveston, texas, to issue general order number 3 basically saying, yeah, we mean
that sound from today s episode, episode number 2 of my new podcast, deja news i m really proud of it and really happy with the way it came out there are six episodes altogether the second one posted today. you heard it along with my guests from the florida naacp and also, the conservative florida legislative leader charlie johns complaining so bad about these witnesses who had humiliated him at his own hearing. so the reason we just did a podcast about this, about the florida inquisitions in the 1950s and the 1960s, and those inquisitions going so poorly for florida s state government conservatives who thought they would be great the reason we did this about this time in history in florida is because it does give you a
episode number two of my new podcast digit news, i promise will not talk about this forever. there s only six episode altogether of the series, i really proud of it and reall happy with the way it came out there are six episodes altogether, the second one jus posted today, which is where that sound is from you heard my co-host isaac davey allison there, along wit and theodore gibson from the florida naacp and also the conservative florida leade charlie johns complaining so bad about these witnesses wh humiliated him at his ow earring. so, the reason we just did a podcast about this, about th florida inquisitions in th 1950s and 1960s and thos inquisitions going so poorly for florida state government conservatives who thought they were going to be great, th reason we just did this podcas about this is because it doe give you a deja news feeling
florida state government at the time, they decided that this was marxism. this was communism and they were going to pend in the state of florida using the power of the state government. so in the 50s, they convened hearings in which they planned basically to harang and make a public example out of some of these naacp comies and they called up naacp members as their witnesses for these live hearings. and what survives on tape from that history which we have the benefit of today is that those naacp witnesses were having none of it. they were not going to take this lying down they wouldn t be used for some political stunt. when push came to shove and it was time for the republican hearings, they ran rings around the politicians. they ran rings around this florida inquisition that was