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Martin Luther King, Jr. addresses the student body at Stanford University with his speech "The Civil Rights Movement and its Direction, Leadership, and Goals for the Future."

Paul F. Lawrence, Associate Superintendent for Higher Education, California Department of Education, speaking before the California Council of Social Studies on February 26, 1966 regarding the lack of African-American representation in American classrooms. He is introduced by Janet Ross, Historian of the Council.

Marshall Windmiller interviews Dr. Han Suyin, noted writer and lecturer and author of "A Many-Splendored Thing." She discusses her life and work, her publications on the Chinese revolution, the Vietnam war, Communism, and the new Western colonialism and imperialism which causes her to recall China in the 1920s.

Selected readings by the authors from the works of Black poets; Langston Hughes, Sterling Brown, Countee Cullen, Margaret Walker, and Gwendolyn Brooks. Also includes readings of poems by Claude McKay. Produced by Arna Bontemps.

On the second day of the Negro writers' conference held at Asilomar, KPFA reporters Kenneth Rexroth and Al Silbowitz asked the first three conference speakers, Saunders Redding, Harvey Swados, and LeRoi Jones (Amiri Baraka), to join them in a discussion about the conference thus far. The panel discusses the audience at the conference so far, and the problems and promise of Black authors.