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Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff

Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff

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As long as there’s been oppression, there’ve been people fighting it. This weekly podcast dives into history to drag up the wildest rebels, the most beautiful revolts, and all the people who long to be—and fight to be—free. It explores complex stories of resistance that offer lessons and inspiration for us today, focusing on the ensemble casts that make up each act of history. That is to say, this podcast focuses on Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff.

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  • CZM Book Club: The Comet, by W.E.B. Du Bois

    CZM Book Club: The Comet, by W.E.B. Du Bois
    Mar 1 2026

    Margaret reads you a 1920 classic fiction story by the seminal theorist

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    44 mins
  • Part Two: The Colored Farmers Alliance and Early Black Cooperativism in the US

    Part Two: The Colored Farmers Alliance and Early Black Cooperativism in the US
    Feb 25 2026

    Margaret continues her talk with Courtney Kocak about the potentially million-strong alliance of Black farmers who built up a cooperative economics in the post-war American South

    Sources:

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    https://www.lucyparsonsproject.com/writings/negro.html
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    https://www.okhistory.org/publications/enc/entry?entry=TE009
    https://worldblackhistory.blogspot.com/2022/11/blog-post_11.html
    https://lawyersgunsmon.wpengine.com/2012/12/this-day-in-labor-history-december-11-1886
    https://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2017/09/day-labor-history-september-25-1891
    https://temple.manifoldapp.org/read/the-black-worker-during-the-era-of-the-knights-of-labor-volume-iii/section/cf118f82-0d04-4251-9934-c474e4daef2e
    https://www.jstor.org/stable/40030730?read-now=1&seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents
    https://wp.nyu.edu/compliance_enforcement/2025/08/07/doj-secures-first-criminal-conviction-in-wage-fixing-case/
    https://ncbaclusa.coop/content/uploads/2023/02/Fall-2022_Winter-2023-Cooperative-Business-Journal_FINAL-v2.pdf
    https://www.jstor.org/stable/40030730
    https://www.givinggrove.org/blog-reference/black-farmers-in-america
    https://snccdigital.org/events/fannie-lou-hamer-founds-freedom-farm-cooperative/
    https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/November-15/the-march-to-the-sea-begins
    https://explorethearchive.com/shermans-march-to-the-sea
    https://www.nps.gov/common/uploads/teachers/lessonplans/Document6(SpecialOrder).pdf
    https://www.grunge.com/601373/what-you-should-know-about-the-granger-movement-of-the-1860s/
    https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/history-archaeology/shermans-field-order-no-15/
    https://www.jstor.org/stable/40030586?read-now=1&seq=7#page_scan_tab_contents

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    44 mins
  • Part One: The Colored Farmers Alliance and Early Black Cooperativism in the US

    Part One: The Colored Farmers Alliance and Early Black Cooperativism in the US
    Feb 23 2026

    Margaret talks to Courtney Kocak about the potentially million-strong alliance of Black farmers who built up a cooperative economics in the post-war American South

    Sources

    https://greekcitytimes.com/2025/02/07/the-helots-a-labour-force/
    https://www.lucyparsonsproject.com/writings/negro.html
    https://www.rd.usda.gov/files/RR194.pdf
    https://www.okhistory.org/publications/enc/entry?entry=TE009
    https://worldblackhistory.blogspot.com/2022/11/blog-post_11.html
    https://lawyersgunsmon.wpengine.com/2012/12/this-day-in-labor-history-december-11-1886
    https://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2017/09/day-labor-history-september-25-1891
    https://temple.manifoldapp.org/read/the-black-worker-during-the-era-of-the-knights-of-labor-volume-iii/section/cf118f82-0d04-4251-9934-c474e4daef2e
    https://www.jstor.org/stable/40030730?read-now=1&seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents
    https://wp.nyu.edu/compliance_enforcement/2025/08/07/doj-secures-first-criminal-conviction-in-wage-fixing-case/
    https://ncbaclusa.coop/content/uploads/2023/02/Fall-2022_Winter-2023-Cooperative-Business-Journal_FINAL-v2.pdf
    https://www.jstor.org/stable/40030730
    https://www.givinggrove.org/blog-reference/black-farmers-in-america
    https://snccdigital.org/events/fannie-lou-hamer-founds-freedom-farm-cooperative/
    https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/November-15/the-march-to-the-sea-begins
    https://explorethearchive.com/shermans-march-to-the-sea
    https://www.nps.gov/common/uploads/teachers/lessonplans/Document6(SpecialOrder).pdf
    https://www.grunge.com/601373/what-you-should-know-about-the-granger-movement-of-the-1860s/
    https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/history-archaeology/shermans-field-order-no-15/
    https://www.jstor.org/stable/40030586?read-now=1&seq=7#page_scan_tab_contents

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    1 hr
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