"Huey comes to power running against the big corporations. He comes to power working to smash Standard Oil [..] They try to impeach him, they almost do impeach him in his first year as Governor..."

The Life and Times of #HueyPLong

with #RobertMann, author of #KingfishU: #HueyLong and #LSU

https://youtu.be/GM7fb_nVqCg

#TheKingfish #Louisiana #UShistory #AmericanHistory #SouthernHistory #populism #USpol #books

#LettersAndPolitics

#Kingfish / #RandyNewman
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=riOxEDVfkt8

I’m not sure how many people know this but in the extremely racist program #AmosAndAndy the character “Kingfish” was loosely based on #HueyPLong a politician that many Black men, including my grandfather was named after. #ManyRiversPBS #BlackMastodon #BlackFediverse #BlackFedi #BlackHistoryMonth