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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.

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.

William Saroyan Talks to English Teachers

The writer speaks before an audience at San Francisco State College. Pulitzer Prize winning author William Saroyan strongly resists the urge to give advice to this group of English teachers. Instead he recalls his past feelings of "isolation and despair" because, ironically, he had a hard time learning to read and write. Mr.

Actuality, no intro, box label instructs, "Operator should fade applause out at end."

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.

The family vs. the official outsider / Reverend Lester Kinsolving. (Episode 7 of 12)

The first speaker in the afternoon sessions of the symposium "The Uncertain Quest - The Dilemmas of Sex Education" produced by and held at the University of California School of Medicine, San Francisco and simulcast on KPFA on April 10, 1965.

Do as I do, be as I am : the bruising conflict / Ben Ard. (Episode 12 of 12)

The third Sunday morning speaker at the symposium "The Uncertain Quest - The Dilemmas of Sex Education," produced by and held at the University of California School of Medicine, San Francisco and simulcast on KPFA, is Ben Ard, Ph.D., Professor of Counseling, Department of Counseling, San Francisco State College.

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