Independent Collections
These collections were produced by independent journalists. Many of these recordings make up the bulk of the original collection of the Freedom Archives.
Documents
Ralph Ellison - Part 1
Date: 8/5/1964Call Number: CE 134Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Colin EdwardsCollection: Colin Edwards Collection
Adam Miller reads Ralph Ellison's address for the conference. About notions of the Black writer's experience in the US and the relationship between suffering and art. Also about understanding literature in a conscious way and the power of language.
Ralph Ellison - Part 2
Date: 8/5/1964Call Number: CE 135Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Colin EdwardsCollection: Colin Edwards Collection
Adam Miller reads Ralph Ellison's address for the conference. About notions of the Black writer's experience in the US and the relationship between suffering and art. Also about understanding literature in a conscious way and the power of language.
Black Writers - Ossie Davis
Date: 8/9/1964Call Number: CE 136Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Colin EdwardsCollection: Colin Edwards Collection
About literature's role in affecting and reclaiming the stereotypes of society. Also the importance of literature as a form of protest. He reads from his play about slavery.
Horace Cayton, Ossie Davis, LeRoi Jones
Date: 8/9/1964Call Number: CE 137Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Colin EdwardsCollection: Colin Edwards Collection
About the tremendous racial confrontations Blacks need to go through to establish positions of power. Davis speaks about literature as communication to elevate the Black community. Jones speaks about Black middle class writers imitating white writers to join the middle class.
Horace Cayton Address - Part 1
Date: 8/9/1964Call Number: CE 138Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Colin EdwardsCollection: Colin Edwards Collection
On the identity of Blacks in America, also the ability to seek out a new identity through struggle and hardship. Also an analysis of the development of Black culture in America.
Horace Cayton Address - Part 2
Date: 8/9/1964Call Number: CE 139Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Colin EdwardsCollection: Colin Edwards Collection
On the identity of Blacks in America, also the ability to seek out a new identity through struggle and hardship. Also a historical analysis of Black identity, including the Back to Africa Movement.
Horace Cayton
Date: 8/9/1964Call Number: CE 140Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Colin EdwardsCollection: Colin Edwards Collection
About the subjugation of Blacks, the role of the church in the Black community, and the stereotypes Blacks face in America. Also about the psychology of shame, phobia of Blacks, and the importance of mass social movements towards improving Black conditions. A historical analysis of Black identity, including the Back to Africa Movement.
Black Actresses - Kelly Marie Berry, Marguerite Ray, Henrietta Harris - Part 1
Call Number: CE 141Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Colin EdwardsCollection: Colin Edwards Collection
Interview about discrimination in theater and the challenges of finding acting roles for Black women. Also the roles Black women usually play are insignificant and/or stereotyped (mamie, maids, prostitutes) and successful integrated theater.
Black Actresses - Kelly Marie Berry, Marguerite Ray, Henrietta Harris - Part 2
Call Number: CE 142Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Colin EdwardsCollection: Colin Edwards Collection
On integrated theater, about the importance of having Black actors and actresses as role models on television, and the Black women's roles being tokenized.
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).
