Program

Abortion: a world view / Leslie Corsa, Jr.

Leslie Corsa, Jr., M.D., Director of the Center for Population Planning at the University of Michigan, speaks at the Conference on Abortion and Human Rights in San Francisco January 9, 1966, discussing the need for liberalized abortion laws. The conference was held under the auspices of the Society for Humane Abortion. Technical production by Dan McClosky.

Coretta Scott King

Coretta Scott King (1927 - 2006) delivers a speech on the civil rights movement at a peace march in Central Park, New York on April 27th, 1968. The march took place three weeks after the assassination of King's husband, Martin Luther King, Jr.

James Bevel on Black power

Reverend James Bevel of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference speaks on non-violence and the battle for Civil Rights at the Conference on Black Power, sponsored by the Students for a Democratic Society October 29, 1966 on Berkeley campus.

Your end of the boat is sinking: the problem of population / Paul Ehrlich

Excerpts from an address on the population crisis by Paul R. Ehrlich, Professor of Biology at Stanford, delivered to the Stanford Summer Alumni College on August 3, 1967. Ehrlich discusses man's attempts to manipulate ecosystems and our environment, the effect our energy consumption has on the earth, and the effect that decreasing the birth rate could have on our species.

The Berkeley schools desegregate / produced by Lou Hartman.

A special report on the Berkeley school system, which became one of the first in California to achieve balanced integration. Producer Lou Hartman reports on the demographics of Berkeley schools; the plans proposed by the Hunter Committee, a task force headed by Richard C. Hunter; and the Committee on Instructional Program for Integration, co-chaired by Harriet Wood committee.

Education goals for ghetto schools

Superintendent of Berkeley Public Schools Dr. Neil Sullivan talks on the problems of desegregation and equality in education. The speech was delivered in San Francisco on September 22, 1966. Dr. Sullivan is a noted educator, author, lecturer, and columnist. In 1963, he reopened the Prince Edwards County, Virginia public schools, which had been closed for several years to avoid desgregation.

America's chief moral dilemma / Martin Luther King.

Martin Luther King, Jr. gives a speech about the immoral consequence of the U.S. involvement in Vietnam. Recorded on the Sproul Hall steps at the University of California at Berkeley on May 17, 1967. Dr. King appeared under the auspices of the Inter-Fraternity Council.

The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas by Gertrude Stein, read by Alice B. Toklas

Alice Toklas reading from The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas by Gertrude Stein and The Alice B. Toklas Cookbook. From the folio "It isn't really an autobiography, of course, because it was written by Gertrude Stein, which is known as too many ironies in the fire.

Thou shall not kill : a memorial for Dylan Thomas / written and read by Kenneth Rexroth.

Reading of a memorial poem in honor of Dylan Thomas and dedicated to Weldon Kess.

Tell it like it is: the young Negro writer

Poet and commentator LeRoi Jones (a.k.a. Amiri Baraka) discusses the prospects for the emerging Negro writer at the Asilomar Negro writers conference.

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