This is a special radio panel discussion regarding the role of organized religion in the decision by the Berkeley Board of Education to integrate the city’s elementary schools beginning in September 1968. The panelists are the Reverend James Comfort Smith of the St. John’s Presbyterian Church, Reverend Paul Schaffer of the Lutheran Church of the Cross, Dr. Arthur Thurman of the Epworth Methodist Church, Reverend George Tittman of St. Mark’s Episcopal Church, and Dr. Robert McKenzie of St. John’s Presbyterian. Moderated by Douglas Beauchamp of the Vacaville Unified School District.
|Note from box cover: “Beauchamp pronounced Bee’-chum”
The church and Berkeley School integration
PRA Archive #:
BB1817
Date Recorded On:
23 May 1968.
Date Broadcast On:
KPFA, 25 June 1968.
Item Duration:
53 min. : 7 1/2 ips, mono.
Total Duration (All Reels):
Station: KPFA
View Folio: KPFA Folio, August 1968, p.8
Program: The church and Berkeley School integration
Keywords: African Americans–Civil rights–History
Contributors:
Moderator: Douglas Beauchamp
Panelist: Robert McKenzie
Panelist: Paul Schaffer
Panelist: James Comfort Smith
Panelist: Arthur Thurman
Panelist: George Tittman
Asset Type: Program
Distributor: Distributor
Rights Summary:
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