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PODCAST SPOTLIGHT THE STORY OF ONE OF THE FIRST MAJOR CIVIL RIGHTS ERA RIOTS IN THE SOUTH

GPB and the Jessye Norman School of the Arts are taking a unique look at one of the first major Civil Rights era riots in the South with Shots in the Back: Exhuming the 1970 Augusta Riot.

The new six-episode podcast is hosted and reported by journalist Sea Stachura, who serves as an instructor at Jessye

Norman School for the Arts, an after-school program and community arts center designed to develop and nurture the artistic and creative talents of students of all ages. The podcast also features the voices and contributions of middle and high school students who are part of Stachura’s podcasting class at the school.

“This is almost forgotten history,” said Gary Dennis, Executive Director of The Jessye Norman School. “Obscuring such a monumental injustice stole history from everyone, and it stole context to history from our families and our students. I hope more than anything that when people hear what happened 50 years ago and hear our children’s reaction that it reminds them that we have the opportunity to do things differently this time. That we will find the best parts of ourselves.” The spark that lit the Augusta riot was the brutal murder of Charles Oatman, a mentally disabled “I hope more than anything that African Ameriwhen people hear what happened can teenager 50 years ago and hear our held by police children’s reaction that it reminds in the county them that we have the opportunity jail. During the to do things differently this time.” riot, hundreds Gary Dennis, of people looted Executive Director, and set fire to busiThe Jessye Norman School nesses in the Black business district. Six Black men were killed by white police officers — all of them shot in the back.

Shots in the Back is hosted at gpb.org/shots and is also available wherever you listen to your favorite podcasts, including Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, Tunein, NPR One, and Google Podcasts.

Lenton Oatman guides students from the Jessye Norman School of the Arts through Flat Rock Cemetery in Matthews, Georgia, where his nephew, Charles Oatman is buried. Photo courtesy Sea Stachura

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