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0:25
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"Unfortunately, it's a mess in here - half the time, I can't find what I came for"
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2:05
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Lepore says she knows for sure that Ellison left New York that day, but she doesn't know if he listened to the radio while packing
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2:12
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Discusses historical imagination - you can't make things up, but you do have to picture them
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2:45
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Ellison was interested in sound, what you can notice by hearing and listening
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4:02
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Lepore is interviewing Diana Bates, daughter of Ellison's friend
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4:42
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Also interviewing Diana's little sister, Grace
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7:03
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Lepore having Grace read the opening lines of Ellison's book - is Grace a white woman?
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12:08
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This is the first time Lepore acknowledges we are actually listening to a recording of Ellison
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14:17
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Reels that can be unspooled, voices that can be heard in the last archive
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16:27
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Lepore states that when the last generation of those born into slavery were gone, the evidence of slavery from their memories would be lost
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18:14
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"In the historical record, words spoken by black people are rare"
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21:18
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Lepore raising questions about the "truth" of the oral histories - asking why so many former slaves said their owners were good to them
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23:10
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Lepore points out the leading questions in the oral histories
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23:41
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Lepore encouraging the listeners to use our historical imaginations
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25:21
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Lepore interviewing Isabella Wilkerson, who wrote about the great migration
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29:10
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We learn that the story we just heard was written down by Ellison - so it wasn't recorded orally?
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29:60
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Understanding folklore as a kind of evidence
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33:02
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Lepore describes Ellison as a radio playing the voice of every black person in the country
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34:56
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Lepore claims that Ellison didn't write another book because he was daunted that he himself had become evidence
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37:07
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The Black Lives Matter movement is about evidence - capturing for whites what had been unheard, unseen, unknown?
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6:41
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Reenacting the voice of a black man from the south that Ellison heard in his head
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8:37
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Reenacting Ellison and Robert Penn Warren talking? Unclear if it's a reenactment or recording
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9:54
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Interview with Ellison and a white interviewer - again, unclear if it's a recording
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11:46
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More interviews with Ellison - starting to think it is an actual recording
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18:30
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Reenactment of a court official recounting the "negro oath"
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19:47
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A judge providing his reasoning for why "negro evidence" can't be taken seriously
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28:25
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Reenactment of a story told to Ellison by a black man he met on a street corner?
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31:16
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We get another actual sound clip of Ellison on a show
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1:10
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Creaking footsteps and a door opening
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1:19
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Sound clips from radio
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3:31
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Background music like one would hear on the radio in those days
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4:59
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Background sounds of chirping birds, insects, etc.
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11:14
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Music playing in the background
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30:50
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Background noise of birds chirping
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