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![LeRoi Jones Reading of Poems](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Date: 12/20/1964Call Number: CE 130Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Colin EdwardsCollection: Colin Edwards Collection
LeRoi Jones reading poems from his book "The Dead Lecturer". Includes mention of the influence Allen Ginsberg had on Jones' work.
![LeRoi Jones on Philistinism - Lecture](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Date: 12/20/1964Call Number: CE 131Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Colin EdwardsCollection: Colin Edwards Collection
On disrespect of non-material values (like art and spirituality) and how Black artists reject philistinism when expressing the experience of Blacks in America. Includes reading from Jones' book "The Dead Lecturer."
![LeRoi Jones on Philistinism - Open Discussion](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Date: 12/20/1964Call Number: CE 132Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Colin EdwardsCollection: Colin Edwards Collection
Discussion after lecture on philistinism. Topics range from US imperialism and material values taking over the world, the role of religion after the Middle Ages, and the role that Black artists can play in building unity.
![Kenneth Rexroth, Saunders Redding, Harvey Swados, and LeRoi Jones](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Date: 12/20/1964Call Number: CE 133Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Colin EdwardsCollection: Colin Edwards Collection
About tensions and poor communication between different generations of Black writers, how disadvantaged subcultures (like Blacks) have trouble expressing themselves to conventional white audiences.
![LeRoi Jones - Negro Politics](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
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](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
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.
![Saunders Redding - History of Negro Writing](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Date: 12/20/1964Call Number: CE 145Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Colin EdwardsCollection: Colin Edwards Collection
About a new literary approach to the Negro's place 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.
![Saunders Redding - History of Negro Writing - Out takes](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Date: 12/20/1964Call Number: CE 146Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: 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.
![Arna Bontemps - History of Negro Literature and the Harlem Renaissance](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Date: 12/20/1964Call Number: CE 144BFormat: 7 1/2 ips Side BProducers: Colin EdwardsCollection: Colin Edwards Collection
About the first Black literature in the US. Discusses the gradual emergence of Black talent and publishers. Details the rise and fall of Harlem Renaissance beginning in 1917 with Claude McKay, in the 1920's with WEB DuBois publication of Harlem Flowers, and ending in 1931 with the Great Depression.
![Arna Bontemps: History of Negro Literature and the Harlem Renaissance - Part 1](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Date: 12/20/1964Call Number: CE 147Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Colin EdwardsCollection: Colin Edwards Collection
About the first Black literature in the US. Discusses the gradual emergence of Black talent and publishers. Details the rise and fall of Harlem Renaissance beginning in 1917 with Claude McKay, in the 1920's with WEB DuBois publication of Harlem Flowers, and ending in 1931 with the Great Depression.