John Beeson benefitted from the removal of Native Americans from the Rogue Valley, like many white settlers in the mid-19th century.
What he did next makes him a bit different: Beeson took up a second career as an advocate for Native Americans, leaving his Talent farm and family behind to push for better treatment for indigenous people.
Historian Jan Wright is working on a book about Beeson and trying to crowdfund it. She joins us to talk about a man who pushed for equality in a time when it was not a popular concept, to say the least.
