440. Evan Faulkenbury.

440. We talk to Evan Faulkenbury about his article, “‘Monroe is Hell’: Voter Purges, Registration Drives, and the Civil Rights Movement in Ouachita Parish, Louisiana,” Evan Faulkenbury is an associate professor of history at SUNY Cortland. His courses and research focus on the civil rights movement, public history, and United States history. He earned his Ph.D. in history from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2016. His book, Poll Power: The Voter Education Project and the Movement for the Ballot in the American South, tells the story of a behind-the-scenes civil rights organization that funded hundreds of grassroots African American registration campaigns during the 1960s and 1970s.

1. This week in Louisiana history. October 23, 1527. A sudden hurricane hit Spanish explorer Panifo de Narvaez killing and undetermined number of men near the mouth of the Mississippi River.
2. This week in New Orleans history. WYES Educational Television Station opens, October 23, 1957.
   
3. This week in Louisiana.
   Yellow Rails and Rice Birding Festival
   November 03, 2021 - November 07, 2021
   8:00am - 5:00pm
   100 Rue de l'Acadie
   Jennings LA 70546
   The Yellow Rails & Rice Festival is designed with fun in mind, and the primary goals are to provide participants with a unique venue to see Yellow Rails and, at the same time, bring birders and farmers together to emphasize the value to birds of the area’s “Working wetlands.”
   Phone: 337-821-5521
   
4. Postcards from Louisiana. Bruce listens to the band at the BMC Bar.

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