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LeRoi Jones - Negro Politics
Date: 12/20/1964Call Number: CE 143AFormat: 7 1/2 ips Side AProducers: Colin EdwardsCollection: Colin Edwards Collection
About 1964 Presidential Election (Goldwater v. Johnson), the failure of whites to integrate Blacks during Reconstruction, where that put Blacks. Also comments on Martin Luther King preventing real social reorganization (references MLK's response to the bombing of 16th St. Baptist Church in Birmingham).
Saunders Redding - History of Negro Writing
Date: 12/20/1964Call Number: CE 144AFormat: 7 1/2 ips Side AProducers: Colin EdwardsCollection: Colin Edwards Collection
About a new literary approach to Blacks in US history. Richard Wright's writings give rise to historians like Van Woodward, John Hope Franklin, Kenneth Stampp who now include Blacks in popular history. Covers history of Negro writers conferences (Paris 1957, Rome 1959) and how Blacks are establishing themselves within the mainstream literature of the US. Includes references to Black writing during the Harlem Renaissance.
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