# Race Relations in the South and How they have Changed, Melvin Edwards

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Published: 2026-04-21T14:32:00+00:00
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## Resource

Melvin Edwards is an author, journalist, and podcaster. His latest book is "Nuremberg Mississippi." We talk about how laws affected blacks differently from whites and were used as tools of opression, such as not being able to use the front door of stores or to eat inside restaurants or for a black man to be driving with a white woman or to be black and in town after sunset in "sundown towns," segregation, the "Negro Motorist's Green Book," where racism comes from and how slavery started it and perpetuated it, why it's nearly impossible for Blacks to trace their ancenstors in the USA prior to emancipation, his book "Nuremberg Mississippi," how the current administration emboldened racism in America, racist organizations in America, why people join racist organizations, PTSD, what we can do to promote friendliness between races, Jim Crow - where the name came from and what it means, his podcast "Stories from Real Life," and more. Links are on the podcast shownotes page Support the show through Patreon

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