Howard W. French
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first heard Dec 2025
last heard 20 Dec
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The struggle for citizens' rights among black people or for black people in the United States.
and the struggle for independence among Africans.
And most people, in my experience, on either side of the Atlantic are almost utterly unfamiliar with this.
Like, most Africans don't think today, in my experience, that their independence had much of anything to do with the civil rights struggle in the United States, and vice versa.
When, in fact, they were tightly bound up together.
Sure.
So the answer here, again, involves multiple parts.
My attention to this and these last two books of mine, to him and to Haiti's history, is also a product of coincidence.
I was a correspondent for The New York Times in the Caribbean.
I eventually learned how to speak Haitian Creole.
Haitians are swimming in their own history, as it stands to reason, and you can't spend a week in Haiti without hearing about Toussaint Louverture.
So this was the beginning, really, of my deep exposure to that historical background.
My family background was important and unusual in another regard.
My father, both of my parents, in fact, were deeply involved in the civil rights struggle in the United States.
They were part of the great historic marches in the South, along with Martin Luther King and all of these other people crossing the bridge at Selma, etc., etc.,
The Edmund Pettus Bridge where John Lewis and King and others were attacked by the police and by dogs.
My parents were there.
They were providing medical care.
They used their own van or minibus as a mobile hospital, which they organized to provide first aid care in the moment to people who were being beaten by the police.
And so they escorted these marches in support of these things.
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