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Educators Civil Rights
  • Vine Deloria discusses his book "American Indians, American Justice"

    Nov. 17, 1983

    Buffalo, land, barbed wire, treaties and legal cases are all topics of Vine Deloria's book, "American Indians, American Justice". A lawyer and a Sioux Indian himself, Deloria points out a tricky question for the courts -- What constitutes Indian country?

  • Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee

    The Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee discusses the civil rights movement, protests, and jail with Studs Terkel

    Sep. 1962

    Terkel talks with Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee about the civil rights movement, protests, and jail.

  • Charles V. Hamilton

    Studs Terkel interviews Professor Charles V. Hamilton on his book written with Stokely Carmichael entitled "Black Power: Politics of Liberation in America" ; part 1

    Nov. 21, 1967

    Using the backdrop of James Baldwin's "Nobody Knows My Name" and Baldwin's feelings that Blacks were ashamed of where they came from, Terkel interviews Professor and Chairman of the Political Science Department of Roosevelt University on his book coauthored with Stokely Carmichael entitled" Black Power: Politics of Liberation in America". Hamilton states that Blacks were taught to hate themselves and leave school believing that. Institutional racism and the deliberate oppression it creates, holds blacks back. Blacks are left out of crucial decision making processes that concern them.

  • Studs Terkel interviews Professor Charles V. Hamilton on his book written with Stokely Carmichael entitled "Black Power: Politics of Liberation in America" ; part 2

    Nov. 21, 1967

    Using the backdrop of James Baldwin's "Nobody Knows My Name" and Baldwin's feelings that Blacks were ashamed of where they came from, Terkel interviews Professor and Chairman of the Political Science Department of Roosevelt University on his book coauthored with Stokely Carmichael entitled" Black Power: Politics of Liberation in America". Hamilton states that Blacks were taught to hate themselves and leave school believing that. Institutional racism and the deliberate oppression it creates, holds blacks back. Blacks are left out of crucial decision making processes that concern them.

  • Roger Buffalohead

    Roger Buffalohead Native American educator, scholar and activist talks about Native American history and education

    Nov. 15, 1971

    Mr Buffalohead a Native American educator, scholar and activist talks to Studs in Minnesota about Native American history and about creating space at universities for Native / Indigenous studies programs. At the end Studs states that there is another 15 minutes of the program, that will be presented at another time.

  • Interview with Steven Bensen, Debbie Kent Stein, and William Heyford

    May. 9, 1990

    Discussing the National Federation of the Blind with Steven Bensen, Debbie Kent Stein, and William Heyford.

  • Curtiss Brooks, Jan Hestor, and Philip Hauser

    Interview with Curtiss Brooks, Jan Hestor and Philip Hauser ; part 5

    1965

    Discussing "Discrimination in metropolitan Chicago" and interviewing Curtiss Brooks, Jan Hestor, and Philip Hauser. They discuss discrimination, poverty programs, education, employment. Includes an interview with a man named Jimmy talking about welfare.

  • Gregory Coffin and Neil Sullivan

    Gregory Coffin and Neil Sullivan discuss civil rights and school integration; part 2

    1967

    Interviewing school superintendents Gregory Coffin (Evanston) and Neil Sullivan (Berkeley) who discuss school integration and civil rights.

  • Gregory Coffin and Neil Sullivan

    Gregory Coffin and Neil Sullivan discuss civil rights and school integration; part 1

    1967

    Interviewing school superintendents Gregory Coffin (Evanston) and Neil Sullivan (Berkeley) who discuss school integration and civil rights.

  • E.R. Braithwaite

    E.R. Braithwaite discusses his career and the book "Reluctant Neighbors"

    1972

    E.R. Braithwaite, Guyanese-born British-American novelist, writer, teacher and diplomat discusses his writing and career. The interview opens with Mr. Braithwaite, reading from his book "Reluctant neighbors".

  • John Hope Franklin

    Dr. John Hope Franklin discusses the history of Civil War Reconstruction; part 1

    1966

    Dr. John Hope Franklin, professor of history at University of Chicago, outlines the history of reconstruction during the American Civil War and briefly his experience at the March to Montgomery; part 1.

  • Dr. John Hope Franklin

    Dr. John Hope Franklin discusses reconstruction after the American Civil War; part 2

    1966

    Dr. John Hope Franklin, professor of history at University of Chicago, discusses the political history of reconstruction after the Civil War, along with which political decisions led to a power imbalance and the rise of the Ku Klux Klan in the southern states; part 2.

  • Discussing the book "Like a Holy Crusade: Mississippi, 1964--the Turning of the Civil Rights Movement in America" with Nicolaus Mills

    Feb. 19, 1993

    Program includes an excerpt of a reading of "This Little Light of Mine" by Kay Mills.

  • Discussing the book "I've Got the Light of Freedom: The Organizing Tradition and the Mississippi Freedom Struggle" with Professor Charles M. Payne

    Jun. 20, 1995
  • Discussing the book "Adam Clayton Powell, Jr.: The Political Biography of an American Dilemma" with the author Professor Charles V. Hamilton

    Apr. 10, 1991

    Professor Charles V. Hamilton

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