1972 - The Chisholm Campaign Trail and the Davis Trial
Yhane Washington Smith
10 episodes
9 months ago
This story may not be "true crime", but this story is truly a crime. These two famous Black women (Chisholm's campaign for the presidency of the U.S. and Davis's Trial for conspiracy to murder); comes "1972" by highly acclaimed, independent audio drama creator, Yhane Washington Smith. "1972" is an eight-part historical audio drama series detailing the powerful story of these two amazing Black women in U.S. history.
The show portrays the true story of Black women empowerment; of two African American women who refused to be ignored and silenced by a society too comfortable with the status quo.
Our goal is for you to be entertained, educated, empowered, uplifted and love the amazing stories of Black women in U.S. history! Written and independently produced by Yhane Washington Smith an A' Lelia Bundles Scholar at Columbia University and ten time LMCC grantee. You can follow on Instagram: @Yhane.Writes.Audio, Twitter: @AudioHarlem, web site: YhaneWashingtonSmith.com. Subscribe to our newsletter: https://harlemqueen.substack.com/ Thank you for listening and reading!
Huge shout out of appreciation to Blackbird Letterpress (https://www.blackbirdletterpress.com/) for their support in helping me make this show!
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This story may not be "true crime", but this story is truly a crime. These two famous Black women (Chisholm's campaign for the presidency of the U.S. and Davis's Trial for conspiracy to murder); comes "1972" by highly acclaimed, independent audio drama creator, Yhane Washington Smith. "1972" is an eight-part historical audio drama series detailing the powerful story of these two amazing Black women in U.S. history.
The show portrays the true story of Black women empowerment; of two African American women who refused to be ignored and silenced by a society too comfortable with the status quo.
Our goal is for you to be entertained, educated, empowered, uplifted and love the amazing stories of Black women in U.S. history! Written and independently produced by Yhane Washington Smith an A' Lelia Bundles Scholar at Columbia University and ten time LMCC grantee. You can follow on Instagram: @Yhane.Writes.Audio, Twitter: @AudioHarlem, web site: YhaneWashingtonSmith.com. Subscribe to our newsletter: https://harlemqueen.substack.com/ Thank you for listening and reading!
Huge shout out of appreciation to Blackbird Letterpress (https://www.blackbirdletterpress.com/) for their support in helping me make this show!
1972 - The Chisholm Campaign Trail and the Davis Trial
25 minutes
3 years ago
Episode 1 - August 7, 1970
THANK YOU for listening!
This episode dramatizes the events on August 7, 1970. On that day, 17 year old, Jonathan Jackson was murdered and the guns Jackson used sent Angela Davis to jail and had her on trial.
WARNING:
This episode depicts the actual events of police brutality.
HUGE SHOUTS OF THANKS and APPRECIATION! Too many roles to list so in alphabetical order.
Chloe
Gabrielle Adkins as Margaret Burnham
Julie Atwell
Eli Barraza
Ian Bell
Jeanette Berry
Alan Bourke
Cole Burkhardt
Jordan Cobb as Charlene Mitchell
Alexander Danner as McGovern
TK Dutes
Ebonie Ellington as Shirley Chisholm
Em Ervolina
Jeffrey Nills Gardner
Morgan Givens as Howard Moore
D. Rubin Green as Congressman
Brandon G. Green as Leo Branton
Evan Gulock as James
Jordan Higgs
Sean Howard as NYC Mayor Lindsay
Eleanor Hyde
Steven Hylton as Wesley
Peter Killy
Victoria Leigh
Eli Hamada McIlveen
Jimmy Mehiel as President Richard Nixon
Isaiah Mueller as McClain and Conrad Chisholm
Michael Molina Minard
Morris Neopolitano
Bayo Olukotun
Serena Rahhal
Bob Raymonda
Shawn Regruto
Jared Roberts
Joshua Rubino as Edgar Hoover
John Sebastian La Valle as Harris
Danielle Shemaiah
Michael Sinclair as George Jackson
Jac'leen Smith as Angela Davis
Emilio Smith
Nina Smith
Tom Smith
Jordan Stillman as Rose Mary Woods
Jeff Van Dreason as Judge Arnason
Violet Tallis
Chi Williams
Ronald Young, Jr.
Tau Zaman
Sound Design by Xperience J.
Editor, Producer, Recording Engineer - T.H. Ponders
Art by Neville Harvey
Written and directed by Yhane Washington Smith
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1972 - The Chisholm Campaign Trail and the Davis Trial
This story may not be "true crime", but this story is truly a crime. These two famous Black women (Chisholm's campaign for the presidency of the U.S. and Davis's Trial for conspiracy to murder); comes "1972" by highly acclaimed, independent audio drama creator, Yhane Washington Smith. "1972" is an eight-part historical audio drama series detailing the powerful story of these two amazing Black women in U.S. history.
The show portrays the true story of Black women empowerment; of two African American women who refused to be ignored and silenced by a society too comfortable with the status quo.
Our goal is for you to be entertained, educated, empowered, uplifted and love the amazing stories of Black women in U.S. history! Written and independently produced by Yhane Washington Smith an A' Lelia Bundles Scholar at Columbia University and ten time LMCC grantee. You can follow on Instagram: @Yhane.Writes.Audio, Twitter: @AudioHarlem, web site: YhaneWashingtonSmith.com. Subscribe to our newsletter: https://harlemqueen.substack.com/ Thank you for listening and reading!
Huge shout out of appreciation to Blackbird Letterpress (https://www.blackbirdletterpress.com/) for their support in helping me make this show!
