Race discrimination — United States.

  • Institutional strategies against prejudice

    “Institutional Strategies Against Prejudice” is the topic for this concluding session of U.C.’s centennial symposium on March 26, 1968. The moderator is Earl Babbie (printed as Babby in the Folio), Symposium Planning committee, and the speakers are Walter Wagoner, Associate Dean of the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley; Marie Fielder, director of the Leadership Training…

  • Cops and robbers I: Police in the ghetto

    Four youths from Hunters Point discuss police problems and suggest changes. Herb Kutchins of the San Francisco Bail Project is the moderator.

  • An educator’s credo

    Dr. Neil Sullivan, superintendent of the Berkeley schools, discusses his view of school desegregation. Recorded at the annual conference of the Association for the Education of Young Children, meeting at the Palace Hotel in San Francisco.

  • Black boy and native son / Irving Howe.

    Reading of a paper in progress on growing up Black in America.

  • 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…

  • The churches and prejudice (Part 1 of 2)

    The second session of the University of California, Berkeley centennial symposium deals with “The Churches and Prejudice.” Chairing the meeting is Walter Wagoner, associate dean of the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley. The participants are Charles Y. Glock, chairman of the sociology department at U.C. Berkeley; Rodney Stark, research sociologist, University of California at Berkeley;…

  • The churches and prejudice (Part 2 of 2)

    The second session of the University of California, Berkeley centennial symposium deals with “The Churches and Prejudice.” Chairing the meeting is Walter Wagoner, associate dean of the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley. The participants are Charles Y. Glock, chairman of the sociology department at U.C. Berkeley; Rodney Stark, research sociologist, University of California at Berkeley;…

  • The persistence of American prejudice (Part 2 of 2)

    This is part two of the opening session of the centennial symposium held at the University of California in Berkeley March 24-26, 1968 and attended by leaders from the churches, schools, mass media, government and politics, business and labor. Following the welcoming address by Chancellor Roger W. Heyns of the University, and a foreword by…

  • The persistence of American prejudice (Part 1 of 2)

    This recording is of the opening session of the centennial symposium held at the University of California in Berkeley March 24-26, 1968 and attended by leaders from the churches, schools, mass media, government and politics, business and labor. Following the welcoming address by Chancellor Roger W. Heyns of the University, and a foreword by the…

  • The wall (Episode 4 of 5)

    In 1964, Leonard Brown and a team of volunteers created this five-part “audiomosaic” documentary series on the lives of African Americans in the ghettos of Los Angeles. This fourth part “The wall,” focuses on the social barriers between Blacks and Whites in America. Blacks talk about their distrust of Whites, recount stories of racial discrimination…