Program

The articulators of the Negro revolt (Part 1 of 2)

Part one of a documentary prepared for the CBC (Canada) and ABC (Australia) by Colin D. Edwards from speeches, interviews, and discussions recorded at the Negro Writers' Conference at Asilomar, California.

The Courts : correlations and contradictions

This is a recording of San Francisco attorney Howard Nemerovski in a studio recording of a talk given at the San Francisco Jewish Community Center in the series "Civil Rights: Problems, People, and Perspective." Talk on the legal aspects of Black Civil rights from 1863 to the 1954 Supreme Court decision on school segregation.

The Civil rights lawyer in the South

Thom Hurwitz interviews three lawyers who work for the NAACP National Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Incorporated (The Inc. Fund), and who have taken part in the defense of demonstrators and the testing of the Civil Rights Act: Leroy Clark, who had been working in St.

The South wants to help, too (Part 1 of 2)

This is the first part of a set of speeches delivered at a banquet held in Jackson, Mississippi on June 17, three days after the funeral of National Association for the Advancement of Colored People leader Medgar Evars. The banquet was held to launch the Southern Committee to Elect the Next President of the United States.

Thinking of suicide / Bernard Mayes interviewed by Elsa Knight Thompson

Bernard Mayes was an ordained Episcopal priest, a volunteer radio producer at KPFA, and the founder of the first suicide prevention hotline in America, started in San Francisco in 1963. Mayes published his autobiography Escaping God's Closet: The Revelations of a Queer Priest through the University of Virginia Press in 2001.

Beyond the Black metropolis

Sociologist and author Horace Cayton interviewed by Jack Nessel. Discussion of the status of Blacks in the United States, the development of a Black culture, and Cayton's friendship and time in Chicago with African American author Richard Wright.

Sharecropper and songster / produced by Ernest Lowe.

Mance Lipscomb, Rolf Cahn, and Phil Huffman discuss and perform folk music by and about sharecroppers.

Martin Luther King, Jr. letter from a Birmingham jail

The Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr.’s statement of April 16, 1963, addressed to his “fellow clergymen,” read by Theodore Roszak, assistant professor of history at California State College at Hayward.

A great experience / moderated by Elsa Knight Thompson

Toli Genin, Xavier Brocks, and Derrel Myers and Tom Mage discuss their experiences in a commune experience called the Encampment for Citizenship, which is held on the University of Washington campus each summer. The panelists are from varying backgrounds and places in the country.

Grow old with 17 million others / Clark Tibbitts interviewed by Elsa Knight Thompson

Dr. Clark Tibbitts, Deputy director of the Special Staff on Aging, a staff agency to the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare, discusses the social conditions of Americans over 65 with Elsa Knight Thompson. The Special Staff on Aging is a part of the United States Department of Health, Education, and Welfare. RECORDED: 27 Sept. 1962. BROADCAST: KPFA Nov. 13, 1962 and WBAI, 29 Jan.

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