Visionary experience / Aldous Huxley.
Speech by noted author.
Program
Lilian Westphal reads selections from European literature
The distinguished Swiss actress in a program of readings in German and English. Miss Westphal presents first a selection of poems from Christian Morgenstern’s Gallows Songs, and secondly, a selection from Romulus, the Great by Friedrich Durrenmatt.
Margaret Mead on sexual freedom and cultural change.
A talk by Dr. Margaret Mead (1901 - 1978), noted author and anthropologist, on the shifts in culture brought about by sexual freedom, followed by a question-and-answer session. She discusses the term "sexual freedom" and its various meanings, talks about marriage in the American context, and probes the relationship between sex and marriage.
Dr. Herbert Aptheker discusses DuBois
Dr. Herbert Aptheker, Marxist writer and historian, in a speech on Dr. W. E. B. DuBois, delivered February 18, 1968 at the 30th anniversary meeting of the Communist Party newspaper People's World in San Francisco.
The unholy alliance / Edith Green
Speech given by Edith Green (1919-1987), Democratic Congresswoman from Oregon, at the 27th American Civil Liberties Union meeting of Northern California, on or around October 13, 1961. Presentation on findings in the Soviet Union and on the expanding network of right-wing political and religious groups in the United States.
On freedom road / by Reverend Ralph Abernathy.
The Rev. Ralph Abernathy speaking at a rally following the opening of lunch counters to Negroes in Nashville, in November 1960. Recorded at the Southern Christian Leadership Conference on October 18, 1960 by folksinger Guy Carawan.
Parents against the draft / interviews by Lou Hartman
Lou Hartman talks with a psychiatrist, an electrical engineer, a teacher in a medical school, a housewife, and a professor of economics concerning their experiences in the Santa Rita Rehabilitation Center, growing out of their arrests at the Oakland Induction Center, where they sat in the doorway to demonstrate their opposition to the draft and the war in Vietnam.
Adam Clayton Powell in Berkeley
Adam Clayton Powell delivers a speech to 4,000 students in the lower plaza of the Student Union at the Berkeley Campus of the University of California, recorded on Friday, January 12, 1968. Powell speaks about Black power, and he speaks against the Vietnam war.
An educator's credo
Dr. Neil Sullivan, superintendent of the Berkeley schools, discusses his view of school desegregation. Recorded at the annual conference of the Association for the Education of Young Children, meeting at the Palace Hotel in San Francisco.
Martin Luther King at Santa Rita
After Joan Baez, her mother, and Ira Sandperl were incarcerated at Santa Rita prison in California after an anti-war demonstration at the Oakland induction center, Martin Luther King, Jr. came to Santa Rita and spoke first to the imprisoned activists and then the supporters and activists outside. This is a recording of the public speech recorded on January 14, 1968.
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