Special program commemorating Negro History Week (Part 2 of 2)

Special program in honor of Negro History Week produced by Elsa Knight Thompson and Mike Tigar. The entire program provides a brief history of Blacks in the United States, highlighting the Civil Rights movement. Part two starts with excerpts from a recording previously aired on KPFA featuring statements from Robert Zellner, field secretary of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee and his involvement in the demonstration of McComb Mississippi high school students. Other audio on this recording is Kenyan President Jomo Kenyatta interviewed by George Hauser, Congo Prime Minister Cyrille Adoula addressing the United Nations in 1962, and a reading of Congo Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba’s poem “A morning in the heart of Africa.”