Ep. 7 | Jewish in West Fargo and Parties & Protests at Stanford University with Rick Leaman

Rick Leaman is an accountancy professor at the University of Denver Daniels College of Business. In this episode, Annie and Rick discuss growing up Jewish in Christian-dominated West Fargo during the 1950s & 60s, attending Stanford University in the midst of the anti-Vietnam war protests, and understanding generational differences regarding political activism and how discrimination should be defined. Rick Leaman: https://daniels.du.edu/directory/richard-leaman/ References for the Jewish community in North Dakota: https://www.valleynewslive.com/2021/12/06/jewish-families-celebrating-hanukkah-fargo/ https://library.ndsu.edu/fargo-history/?q=content/fargo-hebrew-congregation The article I referenced is “Jewish Homestead Communities in North Dakota, 1880-1920,” by William C.  Sherman (1982), North Dakota State University. (This article was sent to me in PDF form by Rabbi Yonah Grossman. There does not seem to be a copy available online) Chabad Jewish Center of ND: https://www.jewishnorthdakota.com/ Music Credits: Church music recorded by Arnaud Coutancier: https://freesound.org/people/arnaud%20coutancier/sounds/495028/ (clip was cut) Civil Rights speech by President John F Kennedy recorded by ERH: https://freesound.org/people/ERH/sounds/34420/ History of America » men of goodwill.wav (clip was cut) Funky Guitar Loop (played when I talk about the social changes of the 1970s) by Quinn Del Val