Courage & Democracy: Senator Doug Jones in a Live Recording of Our New South
Levine Museum of the New South is proud to host a live recording of the award-winning Our New South podcast featuring Doug Jones, former U.S. Senator and federal prosecutor who held the Klansman responsible for the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing in Birmingham, Alabama that killed four young girls. Join us for an evening focused on building community and sparking thought, encouraging us to tackle the most critical issues.
From the courtroom to the Capitol, Jones has spent his career standing up for justice and bridging divides.
In 2017, he shocked the political establishment by winning a special election to fill a U.S. Senate seat in Alabama — the first Democrat to do so in 25 years in the state.
While serving as U.S. Attorney, Jones successfully prosecuted two of the four men responsible for the 1963 bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church, bringing long awaited-justice nearly 40 years after the horrific attack.
Jones sits down with hosts, journalist Kevin Blackistone and historian Robert Greene II, to reflect on his journey and what leadership, courage, and responsibility look like in the New South, the future he envisions for the region, and the challenges he hopes a new generation of southerners will tackle. Don’t miss this opportunity to engage with leaders and visionaries who are shaping the future of the South.
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Read more about how Doug Jones brought KKK church bombers to justice here.
OUR HOSTS
Kevin Blackistone is a longtime national sports columnist now at The Washington Post, a panelist on ESPN, a professor of journalism at the University of Maryland, an occasional contributor to NPR and PBS, co-producer and co-writer of Imagining the Indian, an award-winning 2022 documentary on the history of and fight against mascoting Native Americans, and co-author of A Gift for Ron, a memoir by former NFL star Everson Walls published in November 2009 that details his kidney donation to onetime teammate Ron Springs.
Robert Greene II is an Associate Professor of History at Claflin University. He is also the Publications Chair of the Society of U.S. Intellectual Historians and the President of the African American Intellectual History Society. Dr. Greene II has written extensively on the South, Black history and memory, and political history for publications such as Oxford American, The Nation, Dissent, Scalawag, and Jacobin, among others. Dr. Greene II is co-editor, along with Dr. Tyler D. Parry, of the edited volume Invisible No More: The African American Experience at the University of South Carolina, and he is currently at work on a book titled The Newest South: African Americans and the Democratic Party, 1964-2000, about the relationship between Democratic Party leaders in the South and African American voters.
