Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and Emory University professor Hank Klibanoff explores the mysteries and injustices behind unsolved Civil Rights cold case murders in his new podcast, Buried Truths, with new episodes now airing each Monday. ArtsATL’s Gail O’Neill visited Klibanoff during the recording process at WABE studios to talk about the sociopolitical climate in the South in 1948, the suppression of the black vote and his incessant curiosity surrounding a handful of Georgians who’d decided they’d had enough of a system that was rigged.
ArtsATL: What was the genesis of Buried Truths?
Hank Klibanoff: The six part series and bonus episode is based on a course I teach at Emory called The Georgia Civil Rights Cold Cases Project. Season I of Buried Truths opens with the all-white Democratic primary [primary elections in the South in which only white voters were allowed to participate, in defiance of a 1944 Supreme Court ruling] in Georgia in 1946. When blacks…
