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![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."
![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.
![Ralph Ellison - Part 1](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
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](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
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](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
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](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
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](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
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.