On our Thanksgiving edition of WestSouthwest, we look back at two interviews on history and race. The federal government's role in creating segregation in Kalamazoo and other cities. And the man who broke the color barrier on the football field at what is now Western Michigan University.
Last summer Bridge examined how maps and reports produced by the federal government helped create segregated neighborhoods in Kalamazoo and other cities. Bridge Computer Assisted Reporting Specialist Mike Wilkinson joined us along with Tim Ready. Ready, who is the Director of Western Michigan University's Lewis Walker Institute for Race and Ethnic Relations was one of the people interviewed for the story in Bridge.
Western Michigan University honored the man who broke the color barrier on the football field this past summer. Sam Dunlap came to what was then Western State Normal School in 1917. He is now a member of Western's Athletic Hall of Fame. Historian Tom Dietz joined us in August to discuss Dunlap's legacy.
