African Americans–Civil rights–History
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Emerging patterns of discrimination
Leon Litwack is a historian, associate professor of history at University of Wisconsin, author of the book North of Slavery: the Negro in the free states, 1790-1860, and at the time this speech was delivered, was about to begin a term as visiting professor at University of California, Berkeley. In this recording, Litwack gives the talk…
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Social consequences of discrimination
Historian and author Peter I. Rose delivers a talk on the social turmoil caused by discrimination, and on the efforts to end segregation. Rose is a professor of history and sociology at Smith College and the University of Massachusetts, and the author of “They and We: Racial and Ethnic Relations in the United States.” This…
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Race: an absurd classification
This is a recording of William McCord, associate professor of sociology at Stanford University, author of “Origins of Crime,” speaking on “Race: an abused classification,” in which he explains the biological characteristics that designate race in twentieth century Homo sapiens and suggests that the African American is not a race but a caste. McCord then…
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The Image of America and the Negro abroad
St. Clair Drake, professor of sociology and head of the department of African Affairs at Roosevelt University and co-author with Horace Cayton of Black Metropolis, discusses “The Negro and the American image abroad,” talking on the various types of discrimination Blacks experience around the world. This is the last in the series of ten lectures…
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Report from the south – James Bevel
In the summer of 1963, KPFA, KPFK, and WBAI scheduled regular hours for news updates “from the South” from their correspondent Dale Minor. This particular update follows an arrest of civil rights activist Hosea Williams and the ensuing demonstrations and violence in Savannah, Georgia. Reverend James Bevel of Birmingham fame speaks about non-violent resistance at…
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Reverend Wyatt T. Walker
This is a three-part program on Administrative director of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, Reverend Walker during his Civil Rights activism. On Saturday, May 25, 1963 Walker spoke at a series of meetings in the Bay Area, sponsored jointly by the California Democratic Council, Committee Of Racial Equality, and the National Association for the Advancement…
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Growth of the Black Muslim movement in the U.S. / C. Eric Lincoln.
Scholar and minister C. Eric Lincoln delivers a speech on the growing black nationalist movement. Lincoln divides his talk into sections entitled “The magnolia myth,” “The making of the Muslim movement,” and an unnamed analysis of the current black Muslim movement. KPFA Folio note, December 3-16, 1962, p. 6 Dec. 6: Law Enforcement and Racial…
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Race rebuilding and the renewal of life
Architect and Architectural Forum editor Allan Temko discusses desegregated and affordable housing and the physical and psychological renewal of inner cities, concentrating on specific neighborhoods in Chicago and San Francisco. “The men who control credit today are the men who largely determine how and where we shall live.”
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Eldridge Cleaver at Sacramento State
An address by the Black Panther Minister of Information and 1968 Presidential nominee for the Peace & Freedom Party at the Racism in America symposium held at Sacramento State College in 1968. He covers a variety of subjects, including the 1968 elections, the telephone company, Social Analysis 139-X, the Panther office shoot-up, and the police…
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How to be sane though negro