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