Program

The internment of Japanese-Americans after Pearl Harbor

This is a reading of a manuscript written by Isao Fujimoto in which he combines personal reflections on the wartime internment of 110,000 Japanese-Americans and its relevance to the issues of dissent and civil liberties today. Dr. Fujimoto is Assistant Professor in the Department of Applied Behavioral Sciences and Sociology at University of California, Davis.

Previous title: "The Failure of Democracy in a Time of Crisis"

Behavior analysis and children's learning speed / Michael Commons interviewed by Elsa Knight Thompson

Michael Commons, president of the Behavior Systems Corporation in New York City discusses techniques of behavior research with Elsa Knight Thompson.

The population bomb / Dennis Parnell and Paul Ehrlich interviewed by Al Silbowitz

An interview with Stanford Professor Paul R. Ehrlich (noted population biologist and author of the book titled "The Population Bomb,") and Professor Dennis Parnell (Catholic scientist and biologist at California State College at Hayward).

Planned parenthood in the ghetto / Emily Lewis and Dr. Edward Lampley interviewed by Elsa Knight Thompson

Dr. Edward Lampley and Emily Lewis talk with Elsa Knight Thompson about the problems of birth control work in minority areas. Mrs. Lewis is Clinic Director of the Planned Parenthood Clinics in Alameda County and Dr. Lampley, who has had three years experience in Harlem hospitals, is the new director of the East Oakland Planned Parenthood clinic.

National Unitarian Black Caucus

In this discussion of the work of the Black Caucus to achieve racial equality, three members of the newly-formed Black Caucus within the Unitarian Universalist church talk with Elsa Knight Thompson. Participants in the discussion are Hayward Henry (now Mtangulizi Sanyika) of Boston, national chairman of the Caucus; Larry Williams of the Berkeley Unitarian Fellowship; and George T.

The California gold rush and Black immigration

African American amateur historian Elena Albert discusses the immigration of Blacks to California as a result of gold discoveries in 1849. She is interviewed by Elsa Knight Thompson.

Late doings in Island Creek Holler

Lou Hartman talks with Karen and Joe Mulloy about the work of the Southern Conference Educational Fund in Pike County, Tennessee, the hazards of strip mining, their work with poor people in Appalachia to fight coal corporations, and the opposition they have received.

Mississippi today

In this interview with Paul Brest, who was an attorney with the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. based in Jackson, Mississippi from August 1966 to June 1968, Brest discusses racism, racial violence, and integration in Mississippi. The interviewer is Scott Keech.

Inside the Ku Klux Klan for the FBI

A talk by Reverend Delmar Dennis of Meridian, Mississippi, given July 30, 1968 under the sponsorship of TACT (Truth About Civil Turmoil) in Albany, California, regarding his infiltration of the Ku Klux Klan.

X-ray procedures and Black people

Chester Aaron, chief technologist of the X-ray department at Alta Bates Hospital in Berkeley, discusses the common practice of giving Blacks heavier exposure during X-ray procedures. The interviewers are Dennis Lawrence, producer of KPFA's "Science Report," and Don Porsche, news director at KPFA.

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