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October 4, 2011
1 digital audio files (Duration: 0:54:00)
(Helena Suweri discusses art and Afghan-American community experience related to a current NYC multi-media performance. NY-based Afghan musician Zakaria Sherzad talks about living in US and his art. Khalil Meek from Texas talks about Muslim Legal Fund and its work fighting for Muslim civil rights. Hosts/Producer: Reem Nasr. Interviewees/Guests: Helena Suweri of NYC multi-media event on the Afghan American experience, Afghan musician Zakaria Sherzad, Texas-based Khalil Meek of Muslim Legal Fund. Topics: Muslim Americans, Afghanistan, Afghan-Americans, world music, civil rights.)
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(Recorded December 16, 1964, Broadcast March 18, 1965. Locomotives in Durand; life in Durand; religious intolerance and the KKK; Circus Trainwreck of 1903; labor disputes; "tramps" and "hobos" riding the trains; lynching incidents in Durand; schools in Durand; decline of the railroad.)