Program

What the Negro writer is not saying / Nat Hentoff.

Jazz critic and author Nat Hentoff speaks on the contradictions in American Black writing. At the Negro writers conference at Asilomar.

After the murder of four children

After the bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama on September 15, 1963, James Baldwin spoke to an overflowing crowd at the New York Community Church. Baldwin spoke against the use of terrorism to achieve political aims. The speech was recorded by WBAI at the New York Community Church, 25 September 1963.

Baldwin at the Masonic Temple

James Baldwin delivering one of the talks, on his hopes and plans for changing the modern world. This one was recorded at the Masonic Memorial Temple in San Francisco on the evening of May 7.

Be it ever so humble: 1964 / produced by Marcia Tompkins.

Marcia Tompkins returned to her hometown of Tuscaloosa, Alabama in July 1964 and clandestinely recorded this report and actuality of a Ku Klux Klan meeting. Throughout the recording she pauses to describe what she is thinking and feeling during the meeting. This recording was originally broadcast on WBAI on September 1, 1964 and again ca.

Madame Nhu at the University of California

MADAME NHU AT THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA. Trần Lệ Xuân (22 August 1924 – 24 April 2011), popularly known as Madame Nhu, wife of South Vietnamese Premier and de facto First Lady of South Vietnam from 1955 to 1963, speaks to students at U.C. Berkeley. In this recording, we hear an introduction from Professor Robert Scalopino, chairman of the Political Science Department of the University.

Tune-in on Contra Costa West: downtown redevelopment in Richmond

Program that includes interviews with merchants and householders about the redevelopment of downtown Richmond, CA, and a discussion with members of the Richmond Redevelopment Agency. Produced by Al Silbowitz and narrated by Bob Bergstresser.

Women in marriage / Dr. Elizabeth Howes

Elizabeth Boyden Howes (1907-2002) was a Jungian psychotherapist and founder of the Guild for Psychological Studies in San Francisco. Howes had been in practice in the Bay Area since 1944 and co-editor of The Choice Is Always Ours (R. R. Smith, 1948), and co-edited And A Time To Die (Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1961).

Memorial service for James Chaney

Actuality of a service for a slain civil rights worker, James Chaney, held in his home town in Meridian, Mississippi on August 7, 1964. The principal speakers at the service were David Dennis of CORE and assistant director of the Mississippi summer project and the Reverend Edward Camp, chaplain at Tougaloo College. Includes a speech by a fieldworker on the emotions aroused by violence.

Men in marriage / Dr. Jean E. Neighbor.

Psychiatrist Dr. Jean E. Neighbor (1915-1995) gives the third and last talk in a series of talks about marriage (see also BB0507) sponsored by the Mt. Diablo Unitarian Church, given on March 22, 1964.

The double meaning...of the "farm labor problem" / produced by Ernest Lowe.

Documentary on the termination of the Bracero program, the growers' attempts to fill the resulting labor gap, and the future of California's farm labor movement.

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