University of California, Berkeley

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Sit-in inside Sproul Hall.

    Actuality from renewed protest of students against new campus rules at University of California, Berkeley’s Sproul Hall on October 1, 1964. Precursor to the Car Top Rally. The recording features students discussing sit-in strategies, singing protest songs and chants. It includes discussion among Arleigh Williams(Dean of Men), Mario Savio, Turner, Nate Coleman, Michael Rossman, Jim…

  • Free Speech Movement–“Car Top Rally” (Part 1)

    Actuality of student protest against new campus rules at University of California, Berkeley. START OF THE CAR TOP RALLY . Actuality of student protest against new campus rules at University of California, Berkeley. Side 1 (tape 1). Sproul Hall at 9:00 a.m.: Burton White reads student petition. Student discussion about giving leader names to the…

  • Free Speech Movement–“Car Top Rally” (Part 2)

    Actuality of student protest against new campus rules at University of California, Berkeley. pt.1. Burton White reads ASUC petition about privileges; Pickard talks about sitting at tables; Mario Savio says not to give up student names; Burton White describing tables going up around Sproul Hall; students speaking; the arrest of Jack Weinkey — pt.2. Students…