Program

The San Francisco human rights march

This is a recording of the speeches given at a rally of 35,000 people at the Republican National Convention in San Francisco, July 12, 1964. The day before the opening of the Republican National Convention, 35,000 people marched up Market Street in San Francisco and held a mass rally in Civic Center.

There's action in Mendocino / Ernest Lowe.

Documentary on changes in the artistic community in Northern California.

Rachel Carson : a memorial appreciation

A memorial program for biologist Rachel Carson (1907 - 1964), author of "Silent spring," "The sea around us," "Under the sea wind," and other books. Contains readings from her books that outlined her activism against the use of harmful pesticides, as well as responses from both her detractors and supporters in the media.

Louis Lomax in San Francisco

Louis E. Lomax addresses a rally in San Francisco in late August 1963 of the United San Francisco Freedom Movement, on Black Civil Rights, and the need for inter-racial cooperation. KPFA allowed for several "open hours" in their schedule every month, which they describe in their Folio as "left vacant for something current and important."

Reverend Wyatt T. Walker

This is a three-part program on Administrative director of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, Reverend Walker during his Civil Rights activism. On Saturday, May 25, 1963 Walker spoke at a series of meetings in the Bay Area, sponsored jointly by the California Democratic Council, Committee Of Racial Equality, and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.

KPFA allowed for several "open hours" in their schedule every month, which they describe in their Folio as "left vacant for something current and important."

Women for peace at Geneva / produced by Elsa Knight Thompson

Elsa Knight Thompson interviews three Bay Area women who have just returned from the disarmament conference in Geneva. They were part of a group of 50 American women who went to the disarmament conference under the auspices of Women For Peace to urge the 17 nations assembled to take positive steps toward world peace. 1. Fred Haines reads an excerpt of I.F.

Race rebuilding and the renewal of life

Architect and Architectural Forum editor Allan Temko discusses desegregated and affordable housing and the physical and psychological renewal of inner cities, concentrating on specific neighborhoods in Chicago and San Francisco. "The men who control credit today are the men who largely determine how and where we shall live."

How to be sane though negro

San Francisco State semanticist (not African American) Dr. S. I. Hayakawa discusses the problem of self-fulfilling prophecies for American Blacks. Recorded at San Francisco State College on April 22, 1956.

210,000 children

210,000 children every year receive help through the Aid to Needy Children (ANC) program. This discussion was recorded at the United Community Fund of San Francisco meeting on ANC. Moderated by Judge Robert Kroninger of the Oakland Municipal Court (chairman, ANC Committee, California Association for Health and Welfare).

The East Bay Activities Center / moderated by Elsa Knight Thompson

The East Bay Activities Center was established as a non-profit organization in 1952 and held forth as its mission to serve emotionally disturbed children of normal intelligence between the ages of 5 and 12. This is a panel discussion on this unique Bay Area experiment in dealing with disturbed children. Elsa Knight Thompson moderates, and the participants are Mrs.

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