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Back to SearchA Decade at a Time: Shelley Learns About Life from Clyde Smith
Season 7 Episode 4
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In this episode, Shelley continues sharing the profound influence that Clyde Smith had on his life while he was growing up in segrega…
2 years, 1 month ago
A Decade at a Time: More About the Smith Family
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In this week’s episode, we continue sharing Shelley’s life story a decade at a time leading up to his 90th birthday.
Today, Shelley t…
2 years, 1 month ago
A Decade at a Time: Shelley leaves the Stables
Season 7 Episode 2
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Today we continue telling Shelley’s life story, one decade at a time. Let’s head out to the back porch and head back to the 1930s and…
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A Decade at a Time: Shelley's Life in the 1930s
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Hello, Plumbliners, and welcome to Season 7 of Shelley’s Plumbline.
So Shelley and I looked at the calendar, and we realized that by …
2 years, 1 month ago
A. H. Parker High School 100th Anniversary Dedication Speech
Season 6 Episode 10
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Hey, Plumbliners. In the year 2000, Shelley gave a speech at AH Parker High School in Birmingham, Alabama, on the occasion of the sch…
2 years, 2 months ago
A meeting with a Grand Knight of the KKK, A Minister of the Nation of Islam and the Executive Director of the National Conference of Christians and Jews
Season 6 Episode 9
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In 1993, Shelley hosted the Shelley Stewart Show, Survival in the 90s. It was a talk show on television that ran for 13 episodes. Tod…
2 years, 2 months ago
Back Porch: Race, Racism and Happiness
Season 6 Episode 8
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Hey, Plumbliners. This is Mark Jamroz, producer of Sheley’s Plumbline. Today, Shelley and I sit down for another edition of the “Back…
2 years, 2 months ago
Black Republicans
Season 6 Episode 7
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Today, Shelley takes on the tough topic of black participation in politics as he interviews Raynard Jackson. At the time of the inter…
2 years, 2 months ago
Freeborn Slave: Diary of a Black Man in the South
Season 6 Episode 6
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Today, Shelley shares an interview with Birmingham resident Karen Ameen.
The interview took place in 1996, shortly after Ms. Ameen pu…
2 years, 3 months ago
Internalized Racism (Rebroadcast)
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Hey, Plumbliners...
Shelley was feeling a bit under the weather this week, so he asked me to find one of your favorite episodes of She…
2 years, 3 months ago