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![Black Writers on Richard Wright - Symposium - Extras](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Call Number: CE 118Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Colin EdwardsProgram: Symposium on Richard WrightCollection: Colin Edwards Collection
Platform discussion with Herbert Hill, Horace Cayton, Arna Bontemps, and Saunders Redding on the life and work of Richard Wright. Includes criticism of Wright's work along with interesting personal experiences (i.e. Redding recalls searching the streets of Chicago with Langston Hughes for the young communist journalist Richard Wright in 1934).
![Interview - Horace Cayton, Arna Bontemps, and LeRoi Jones](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Date: 1/1/1965Call Number: CE 119Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Colin EdwardsCollection: Colin Edwards Collection
Discussion on the "Negro Identity" - writers discuss social divisions within the Black community and how these difference are being overcome in the wake of artistic rebellion. Includes separate interview with Bontemps on the emergence of Negroes in mainstream entertainment and communications media.
![Interview - Horace Cayton, Arna Bontemps, and LeRoi Jones - Part 1](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Date: 1/1/1965Call Number: CE 120Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Colin EdwardsCollection: Colin Edwards Collection
Discussion on the "Negro Identity" - writers discuss social divisions within the Black community and how these difference are being overcome in the wake of artistic rebellion.
![Interview - Horace Cayton, Arna Bontemps, and LeRoi Jones - Part 2 and 3](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Date: 1/1/1965Call Number: CE 121Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Colin EdwardsCollection: Colin Edwards Collection
Discussion on the "Negro Identity" - writers discuss social divisions within the Black community and how these difference are being overcome in the wake of artistic rebellion.
![Free Huey Newton Demonstration](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Date: 1/16/1968Call Number: CE 122Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Colin EdwardsCollection: Colin Edwards Collection
Interviews with activists and also Bobby Seale speaks. Interview with Eldridge Cleaver about police brutality in all communities and the need to mobilize to free Huey.
![Letters From Mississippi](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Date: 1/1/1965Call Number: CE 123Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Colin EdwardsCollection: Colin Edwards Collection
Interviews with white Northern activists who participated in the Civil Rights movement in Mississippi during 1964, including the Freedom Summer.
![Black Writers - Horace Cayton, LeRoi Jones, and Ossie Davis](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Date: 1/1/1967Call Number: CE 124Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Colin EdwardsCollection: Colin Edwards Collection
Interviews with Horace Cayton, LeRoi Jones, and Ossie Davis discussing the conditions of Blacks in relation to white power, liberalism, socialism and war. Also distinction between violent and nonviolent approaches to organizing, and the impact of Black writers on social movements.
![LeRoi Jones on Black Writers: Tell It Like It Is - Part 1](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Date: 9/20/1964Call Number: CE 127Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Colin EdwardsCollection: Colin Edwards Collection
History of Negro writers and how they had to emerge from "below the veil of anxious politeness" that was set in place by monied white audiences to reveal the true "Black experience" in America. Includes references to most influential Black artists - from jazz musicians to writers. LeRoi Jones reads from article "LeRoi Jones Speaking."
![LeRoi Jones on Black Writers: Tell It Like It Is - Part 2](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Date: 9/20/1964Call Number: CE 128Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Colin EdwardsCollection: Colin Edwards Collection
History of Black writers and how they had to emerge from "below the veil of anxious politeness" that was set in place by monied white audiences to reveal the true "Black experience" in America. Includes references to most influential Negro artists - from jazz musicians to writers. LeRoi Jones reads from article "LeRoi Jones Speaking."
![LeRoi Jones on Black Writers: Tell It Like It Is - Part 3](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Date: 9/20/1964Call Number: CE 129Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Colin EdwardsCollection: Colin Edwards Collection
History of Black writers and how they had to emerge from "below the veil of anxious politeness" that was set in place by monied white audiences to reveal the true "Black experience" in America. Includes references to most influential Negro artists - from jazz musicians to writers. LeRoi Jones reads from article "LeRoi Jones Speaking."