Jon Fasman
speaker
573 appearances
15 recordings
1 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 17 Jul
Jon Fasman’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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You may have heard of the Green Book, published every year from nineteen thirty six to nineteen sixty six.
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It listed restaurants, hotels, and other businesses that would serve black travelers, as well as sundown towns to stay away from.
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These are places where African Americans faced arrest, or worse, if they were caught after dark.
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Businesses like Mr.
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Threats made road travel possible for African Americans.
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And it's a long road in either direction.
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Luther is around eighty miles from Tulsa and thirty from Oklahoma City.
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But it was also located right between two sundown towns.
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Містер Третс grandфа Алан фіниш the modest sandstone building in nineteen thirty nine.
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He ran the business until he died in nineteen fifty, when it passed to his son, who operated it until nineteen fifty-six.
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The current Mr.
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Threats aunt ran it until it shut down in nineteen seventy four.
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It was never in the green book.
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But it is the only known black owned and operated filling station on Route sixty six.
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It has since been restored, and today it looks remarkably like an old time service station.
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Out front are two gleaming vintage canoe fuel pumps.
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The building is modest but pristine.
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The interior is wood paneled and lined with family photographs, advertisements, and notices from the business's heyday.
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A lot of work has gone into restoring it.
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Why did you and your family think it was important to preserve it, to restore it?
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