The Freedom of Harold Moss - Part I

About this Episode

In this, the first of two episodes, Harold Moss describes his childhood in Michigan, his move to the Pacific NorthWest as a National Guardsman, and the reality of how racism played out in his everyday life, from childhood right through to when he and his wife tried to buy their first house.

It's a compelling piece of audio, in part because he is such a great talker, and in part because the issues and ideas he's talking about are even more urgent and even more current than they were when this was first recorded in 2016. When even 2016 seems like a more innocent time, you know things must be bad in 2025.

This audio was recorded as research for the biographical essay on Harold's life in published in HistoryLink.org, the online encyclopaedia of Washington State history. Special thanks to Jennifer Ott and HistoryLink for permission to broadcast this audio. You can find the full essay here:
https://www.historylink.org/File/20125

And you can find more information about housing discrimination in Tacoma here:
https://www.historylink.org/File/22992

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Dominic