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The nerve of failure

Dr. Thomas Billings, assistant professor of education at Sacramento State College, delivers the fifth annual faculty convocation lecture at the college on May 22, 1963, at the invitation of his colleagues. Just prior to this date, both Dr. Billings and Dr. Edward Beechert, assistant professor of social science, had been refused tenure and a third man, Dr.

100 years of freedom / James Baldwin.

James Baldwin gives a talk at the University of California at Berkeley on the fight for Black Civil rights since the Emancipation Proclamation.

Duck and cover / panel moderated by Elsa Knight Thompson

Four peninsula children--Kathy Fitzgerald, Susan Whitaker, Fred Barnhart, and Robert Rogers--talk with Elsa Knight Thompson about civil defense drills. They discuss the "duck and cover" instructions they are given at drills at schools, where they get their information regarding atomic bombs, and their thoughts and feelings on radiation, war, and death.

A conversation with James Baldwin

Elsa Knight Thompson and John Leonard, Director of literature and drama, talk with the author of “The fire next time” and “Nobody knows my name” about both literary and political matters. Among other things, Baldwin discusses what comes after Birmingham in the civil rights movement, and why the critics attacked his novel “Another country.”

Ban racial incitement

Labour party M.P. Fenner Brockway explains his controversial bill to ban speech which incites racial and religious hatred in this conversation with Mike Tigar in London.

Abortion and the law.

A panel discussion sponsored by the Citizens' Committee for Humane Abortion Laws in San Jose in September 1962.

Commentary on Negro delinquents

Talk on the problems facing Black youths.

Previously listed as BB0572.03

Commentary of a Black Southern busrider / Rosa Parks

Discussion of Rosa Park's refusal to give up her seat to a white man and the resulting bus boycott in Montgomery, Alabama. The interview was conducted by Sidney Rogers with Rosa Parks in 1956.

That jackass across the street / Derrel Myers interviewed by Elsa Knight Thompson

“That jackass across the street” is what a neighbor called Derrel Myers when he launched his 30-day vigil on the steps of the Atomic Energy Commission in Berkeley, to dramatize his support of the Everyman 1 crew serving 30-day sentence for its sailing. Everyman I and II were American boats that sailed from San Francisco for the Pacific nuclear testing grounds.

Paul Robeson : world citizen / interviewed by Elsa Knight Thompson and Harold Winkler.

Paul Robeson, noted actor and political activist, relates his personal history and views in this interview with Elsa Knight Thompson, KPFA, and Harold Winkler, then president of Pacifica Foundation.

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