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Program Intro start Crisis 1969
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Ron Karenga - We measured time basically from 1965, which we say was the year of revolt that change the level the struggle and the texture of the struggle. We have a calendar seven year calendar 1965 was the year of the revolt. 1966 was the year Black Power 1967 was a year of young lions. That's the year of politics.This is the year that black people became more politicized by the issues and became more involved. Because we believe that in order to build a nation you have to mobilize, organize and then nationalize and one of the processes in there to politicize people so they can take a position on thing so that they can feel the need for power, so that they can get three basic things self determination, self respect, and self defense. I think this year has brought them to that point. And 1969 would be the year reconstruction to pull all this together so that we can make some sense of meaning out of it.
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William Graeves Host show "Jambo" greeting monologue from inside a building overlooking a busy NYC street -
"Jambo Good evening, brothers and sisters. I'm William Greaves with Blue House welcoming you to another edition of black Journal. Well, tonight we're going to look at 1969 President Nixon is now occupying the White House, the white house that has brought so much prosperity to white America. Almost 200 years, the black man has looked to the White House with hope that the incoming presidents would represent all Americans. A few days ago President Nixon took office, he got there without our help. According to present statistics, only 10% of the black vote was cast for Nixon. One of the reasons may be due to the fact that many of us have lost faith in existing American politics. To the black man, American democracy has often been dangerously close to fascism. Over the past few 100 years, many of us have seen too many of our leaders jailed and killed. Most of us didn't vote for Nixon simply because well, we didn't dig him. As it stands today, three negros have accepted positions with the Nixon administration. Now these positions are cabinet rank. It has been reported and admitted by the Nixon administration that many black politicians have been offered positions In the Nixon administration, including Senator Brooke of Massachusetts, even those men politically oriented toward the White House have declined to serve the new president. One of President Nixon's major campaign promises that played a large part in his election was his pledge to bring law and order to America, obviously appealing to the frightened middle class, a category to which few blacks belong. Although black America has not been talking to Mr. Nixon, we've been talking about him because he represents America and will influence a great deal of what is going to happen in this country in the next four years. Tonight, black journal will explore some of the reactions of Afro Americans across the country to President Nixon. We'll also be discussing community control, black economics, and our evolving political consciousness." |
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Mayor Richard Hatcher of Gary Indiana seconds nomination of Channing Phillips for President from a podium surrounded by a white crowd at August 1968 Democratic National Convention in DC.
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Still shot of Channing Phillips - 1st African American to be placed in nomination for President.
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Pan wide shot of crowded political rally
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Eldridge Cleaver speaks at podium announces he is running for President as leader of the Peace and Freedom Party
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1968 Presidential candidate Dick Gregory seated at table in front of new mics announces his trip to Paris to speak with North Vietnamese delegation. Racial tension is politics 1968.
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Hubert Humphrey at political rally podium "We do not want a police state but we need a state of law and order"
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Armed white police officers wearing helmets and billy clubs aggressively walking through a crowd of protesters wrestling or knocking many to the ground. 1960s police brutality and crowd disbursement or protestors.
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Demortatic Governor of Alabama George Wallace speaks of staunch law and order rhetoric.
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African American protestors holding large signs and chanting in unison, Protest sign read "Florida Republican Party Excludes Negroes From Delegation". Police officers watch from sidelines.
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President Nixon speaking at a podium with blue curtain background - Our founders recognized that the first requisite of progress is order. Now there is no quarrel between progress and order, because neither can exist without the other. So let us have order in America, not the order that suppresses dissent and discourages change. But the order which guarantees the right to dissent, and provides the basis for peaceful change. Time is running out for the merchants of crime and corruption in American society. The wave of crime is not going to be the wave of the future in the United States of America.
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slow pan of an all white audience cheering as Nixon speaks
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WS of Nixon at podium with Presidential seal. Nixon pounds fist on podium. Law and order speech.
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crowded white audience cheering and waving Nixon signs. camera zooms in to close up of Nixon signs.
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Close up of Reverend Albert Cleague (Detriot Michigan) speaking from a church pew -
There wasn't much difference, really, between Wallace Nixon and Humphrey slight differences of degree but essentially all of them work, we're catering to what they felt was a new feeling of anti black in the community. So I don't think Nixon is going to do a whole lot that Humphrey wouldn't have done. |
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Dr. Alvin Poussaint (Boston, Massachusetts) Speaking from an office desk - Well, I think it's the law and order issue and the fact that Nixon was voted in to the presidency as an indication of the general conservatism of the country. But also, I think, the general feeling that we deal with a lot of the problems we have the social problems, the urban crisis, the ghettos and so on, is to use repression and control. That is that somehow, this can all be handled if the militant black folks are controlled and contained, and even perhaps, maybe eliminated. They think that's going on a lot of people's mind.
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**NAME** Close up talking about laws, force and police power under Nixon's presidency. "I'm a little disappointed that Nixon did get elected..."
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Dan Watts - Liberator Magazine -
this way either. I think that though, the significant thing about Nixon's election, of course, it means that the things that the iron like grip the stranglehold that the white liberal establishment has had on the black community, but but these last 2030 years has finally been broken by with the election of Reverend Reverend Richard Nixon. And I think that we are going to after really fend for ourselves. I mean, I think I think a lot of the people in the afro American community been running around screaming about black controller communities, black lists and black that they're not going to have a lot of handful of guilt stricken white liberals hanging around and turn on, I mean, they're going to be dealing now with white America and is worse, and that and not gonna be able to pull this kind of hustle of, you know, screaming black power, and at the same time, taking whities money. Because I don't think that Richard Nixon is going to be getting up off of that kind of guilt money from the white community, |
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Julien Mayfield - we are now not playing anymore, there is no time left to play, and that we are probably in for several years of a great repression from the new powers that be not that they are so different from the others, but there will not be I hesitate to repeat what, but I don't expect there to be a lot of guilt, money and conscience money around. I believe that the whites in the United States are getting themselves together. And that we'd better do the same.
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Willian Greaves - So you don't you don't really see any. We have any really strong allies that when thinking actually of Robert Kennedy, would you say that he was a strong ally.
Dan Watts, Liberator Magazine - He was a he was a potential ally. I think in the case of Robert Kennedy, and people like him, they have been misled by the liberal Negro faction that exists in the afro American community. I mean, they I think that when he talked to, quote, The so called pseudo melanin, that he felt that he was really talking to the soul Brother, you know, on 25th Street in Lenox Avenue, he's got to do rag on, you know, he's ready to burn America down. And nothing was farther from the truth. I think it perhaps that Kennedy could have been a potential ally, I don't think it was a real outlier. At the time of his death. |
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Writer LeRoi Jones (aka Amiri Baraka, Imamu Amear Baraka, born Everett Leroy Jones) leads political round table discussion with a group of educated and informed and well dressed African American men and women - Nationally, we see that they're taking these steps from Kennedy say to Nixon and said, you know, a giant step to the right, especially as he says, economically, it's going to mean where you know, a lot of those social illusions that the democrats spout are going to be just summarily cut out. But it was interesting to see that black people, especially in Newark, who are trying to keep Wallace out of the White House, let imperiale, who's on the other side was in their house, you know, I mean, right on the local level, like he says, the grass roots, white man has already taken his step.
Bill Strickland- And we're in a situation that's very analogous, although people don't want to face this fact, with Germany, where the people that rule the country, the class that rules the country, interprets all of the problems of the country as being the fault of black people, like people are going to be began to become the scapegoat for all of the problems of this society. And what that means is that there's going to be a new white political tradition, which has come out in Newark, where you see, they say, this is some little comfort that Wallace wasn't elected, but little local races were elected all around the country. |
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Wide Shot of Nixon speaking from a podium with a crowded audience - They don't want to be a colony in a nation. They want the pride and the self respect and the dignity that can only come out they have an equal chance to own their own homes, to own their own businesses to be managers and executives, as well as workers to have a piece of the action and the exciting ventures of private enterprise.
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Possibly H. Rap Brown close up wearing dark glasses Well, it's just a game, Nixon, thing about Nixon is he's talking in terms of black capitalism, but it will not reach the man in the street. It will be the black bourgeoisie who will benefit more by than the man on the street. And I don't think Nixon is going to bring about any drastic changes. I think we have to be aware of mixing the old Nixon, I don't think he's changed. I think Nixon is the same person in the McCarthy era. And we, as blacks have to be aware that they do have concentration camps in America and they will be open again and It won't be for the Japanese people this trip.
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Voice over while a group of African American chant in support of Charles Evers.
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African American in fedora and suspenders walking into a democratic convention
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"And I think Nixon will do good things for black people not because he wanted to because black people will put so much pressure onto him until you have no other choice." |
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black older male wearing fedora and suspenders walking into a democratic convention center. State Convention Loyal democrats of Mississippi.
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close up of white middle aged white male holding a Wallace sign.
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older black man with glasses holding a Panola sign.
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Close up of Charles Evers, civil rights activist being interviewed by the news ABC
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Crowded room of black people cheering with patriotic flags in the background and Charles Evers sign.
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Pan through desolate fields. Sign for Sidney Logan, treasurer of the Lowndes County Freedom Organization (LCFO) and then its candidate for sheriff in 1966.
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old Black Panther support sign pull the lever for Black Panther and go home.
Bill Strickland - Now, I think we must understand is that there is no political solution within the context of this political system. There may be a political solution to some modifications of this system, but within the existing political system for a number of reasons, gerrymandering, for the question of seniority system in the house, the question all the way in which the the existing political structure changes the rules, when the people were organizing allowance County, and there was a threat of blacks taking over, they changed, the rules were an office was formally two years, they extended it to four years where it cost $550. to file for office, they raise that 250 to $500. I mean, the system changes the rules of the game. And if we are naive enough to believe that simply by following those rules, which is in fact, our 400 year history of following those rules, if we by continuing to do that, and they changed those rules upon every whim, then we're lost and defeated people, |
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Kathleen Cleaver, Black Panther Party - Beautiful light skinned, well-spoken black woman with large afro - we use the ballot along with all the other things that are available to the arsenal of black people. And we use the ballot specifically for one purpose, and that was to educate people to the real nature of their problems, and to give the people who wanted to vote and opportunity to vote for the Black Panthers. But I think I know in snick, it was recognized as an educational process, process of development of raising the political consciousness of people to the point that they can see that voting is not to a solution. It's not a solution. Black people voted and put a black mayor in Cleveland. Now, what's the situation and how, what's the difference? That's not the solution, the solution is very massive changes. And you do not get massive changes by the simple process of voting. Because you do not control the electoral process, we wish to offer
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WS of crowded political rally with Wisconsin sign. Voice over announces nomination of Julian Bond. Camera zooms in to Julian Bond who is speaking from the crowd into multiple new microphones.
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Julian Bond. close up interview inside of a moving car - I'm not about by myself, or even with the help of the other black legislators going to revolutionize Georgia, if I thought I was or if I told my constituents I want I'd be kidding now might be kidding myself. The other thing I know is that I can and I have been of service to the people who sent me there. I've done things for them.
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Charles Hamilton, political scientist - We found what the presidential campaign situation that there is a limit. And I speak to you as a political scientist, there is a limit. And to the extent that black people can use the electoral process to effect change, that unless we do a mass, our power as the calculator hacha says, get ourselves together. We cannot expect anything from the electoral system.
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Thomas Bradley, politician, African American mayor of Los Angeles - I think that there is some indication that it's possible to change the system. I think that the restructuring of the Democratic Party, for example, the Democratic National Convention, which saw a number of changes made there, the thrust on the part of many people in that party since the elections, indicating that they want to change the nature of the party is, I believe, an indication of hope that the system can be changed rather than to destroy it.
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Ron Miller close up interview with a relaxed feel Revolution Eldridge Cleaver on front page of new paper in background - Well, I think they began to take that first, you know, like step toward organizing their own thing. And everything done inside the system now is like experimental. Julian Bond is one of the last braid experiments, you know, if he wins, you know, if he can achieve what they see if he can work out a blackness within all that whiteness, then it might hold things back a little bit in terms of really coming together. Black people,
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emotionally energized Ron Karenga interview with dark sunglasses - we cannot make alliances with that enemy, the best thing we can do is make a coalition and that must be a deceptive move. The difference between the coalition and alliances that a coalition is a temporary arrangement on a given issue. Once it is finished, it is dissolve and Alliance is a permanent relation for you know, defense and development. And we can only do that with people of color as opposed to the color lists. And some people were trying to make alliances with the enemy, and at the same time, had no power to make an alliance he did not make an alliance. If you have no power and someone else has all the power however technique and give you the direction. Don't you know this has been tried in the integration movement. There is no difference to talk about making the lines with white People with guns is just like making the lines with the white people doing a non violence state, the white people are slick enough to understand that people are not going for non violence anymore. And what they're trying to do, they used to have non violence and integration. Now they got violence and integration, it's the same thing. It's the same cardboard Murphy game, the P game that every nigga should be hip to by now. And if the white man can no longer rule, we say from the airfield, he'll start trying to rule from the bedroom. And then by that goes through the head is a chunk of 450 year old chunk. So the 1970, we're going to separate all that.
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Round chair discussion on all white set
Reverend Andrew Young, Southern Christian Leadership Conference - So I think that if we learn that we can depend on big daddy in Washington, and begin to get together, I think that 1969 could be the beginning of a new unity of a new power of a new cooperation across the Society of Black people and poor people and people of goodwill. Robert Johnson, Jet Magazine - I have to be perfectly honest with you, I can't see, you know, that Silver Line in the cloud, I want to struggle in that direction. But I say my concern is who's going to interpret this law and who's going to enforce it Alexander Allen, Urban League - it is possible, I believe, for people who have convictions to move this country in the direction of some new opportunities and begin to relieve some of these critical problems. |
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William Greaves reports from the top of a New York City building, high rise apartment buildings in the back ground ; On the political scene recently reinstated congressman Adam Clayton Powell has issued a call for a third political party. Paul says militant blacks should unite behind Julian Bond, while white radicals line up behind Ted Kennedy. Paul says a third party led by Vaughn and Kennedy maybe necessary to quote save the Republic. In Orangeburg, South Carolina last February, three students died when police fired into crowds of students demonstrating to desegregate a bowling alley. The Justice Department has filed charges against nine of those policemen for their actions. They face a mega sentence of one year in prison and a $10,000 fine if convicted. After 10 months of patrol duty in Wilmington, Delaware as black community, the National Guard is pulling out assigned to the city during rebellions sparked by Martin Luther King's death. new governor Russell Peterson ordered the troops out as its first official act. The guard was the most glaring symbol of repression in beleaguered Wilmington black community. Black Panther, national Chairman Bobby Seale announced that his organization was getting rid of conspirators and opportunists that had infiltrated the Panthers. He said that members engaged in criminal activity would be expelled. Roy Wilkins, Executive Director of the NAACP has come out opposing autonomous Black Studies departments, one of the key points and black student rebellions on campuses across the country. He claims that such departments would result in Jim Crow schools, and that he would be willing to go to court to prevent such a move. On the other hand, Roy Innes of the Congress of Racial Equality has branded Wilkins as passe and supports the students demands for autonomy. Black journal has invited Mr. Ennis and Mr. Wilkins to debate these issues on our February program. Now for a broader look at the school situation.
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close up of Roy Wilkins, civil Rights activist and NAACP director speaks at mic with voice over
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close up of Roy Innis with voice over
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Pan out of Lou House in front of a brick school building Howard University 1960's cars drive by in the back ground-
With Hawkins dropping as some do, I'm on the case here in front of the founders library at Howard University in Washington, DC. Some comments about self determination, or self determination and our own black communities controlling economic growth, our educational system, black folks have got together and talk with one another about womanhood and manhood. All these things came to a head in 1968. We saw what happened in ocean Hill, Brownsville in New York, and in Boston, at the Martin Luther King Elementary School in Philadelphia, and here in Washington, DC and in Chicago, and in almost every other black community across the nation. It's happened. It's happened at universities like San Francisco State, Brandeis University, Columbia, New York, Chinese state and Pennsylvania, and Northwestern Illinois. It revealed itself with the formation of black student unions at places like Harvard, Princeton, Yale, and almost every other major university in the country. That's what's been happening across our country. And blacks are demanding and they're determined to take control of what people teach them, and what is relevant to them and our black culture. That's what we're about 1969 |
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black and white people attend a rally outside of a brick building where a paddy wagon is parked outside.
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middle aged black woman being arrested in a crowd of people while reporters' mics are pushed in her face. ushered to a car by multiple officers both black and white. She demands to know why she is being arrested.
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shot of 1960's police car pulling away from a crowd driving down a New York City street.
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3 black school girls walk past a group of white police officers.
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group of young African American school students sitting a round a table doing school work
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Black protesters holding signs in support of African American education. WS of rally. Paddy Wagon parked on the street.
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line of white police officers monitor a rally or protest.
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black woman leaning out of the upper window of a brick city building.
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a group of black students walking out of a city school building. Camera pans out to show police wooden barricades.
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group of white police officers stand around a city street, hands on waists chatting
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black and white middle aged people in business attire walking, many smoking, along a crowded city street.
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rally or protest along a busy city street. tall buildings and city bus in background.
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crowded rally across city overpass.
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**NAME**
Community control is a is a very big issue. But it depends on whose community is controlling what you see the thing that we've been faced with, and we certainly have community control on our systems today. But it depends on whose community and doing the controlling |
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Rhody McCoy close up from a messy desk - New York City ghetto areas has had a history of academic failure. youngsters have just not been able to break through the educational structure of New York. And I suspect that you can find much documentation to some of the Shall I call them administrative reasons, for example. They have not had in most of these schools, they experienced leadership. They have had tremendous turnover of staff, mostly your inexperienced teachers went to New York City School System, come in to the ghetto areas. And finally, you had a complete lack of confidence by the parents in the school system, and have created in the minds of the educator sense of apathy, you know, parents just don't care not. So they've just don't have any confidence. And they've seen the failure year after year, you have a centralized system, for example, that gives a test every year, year after year, to record the same degree of failure. In other words, the kid fails in the third grade, he gets to test in the fourth grade, he fails in the fourth grade and give it to him if he just completely reinforcing the failure and this then defeats the youngster with no real, shall I say processes of addressing themselves to this kind of academic retardation.
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close up of young male black student reading a book at his desk. Pan out to a classroom of young black male and female students sitting at their desks.
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middle aged black school teacher helps black student with classwork.
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Charles Hamilton
And then we also found in the Brooklyn school situation, that as we do get ourselves together, we are going to come up against some very strong traditionally entrenched forces like the union's and we're just gonna have to be prepared on a organized basis to deal with those kinds of forces. |
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**NAME** close up interview outside of a city residence, small black boy climbing on a fence or play structure behind him.
Yeah, well, as always that battle, you know, my phones give you money. And they, they, you know, they want to be on the board of directors, so they can start setting policies and start telling you what to do. We say no, you know, this is our thing. We're gonna do it our way. |
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Benjamin Scott close up interview with a red white and blue striped curtain behind him - Well, it's clear to me that the problems that the various groups have had around the country in various cities, is due to the fact that the way community control has been achieved in its limited fashion has been on the basis of a privilege granted to the people by powerful and sensitive people, let's say and the concept of community control as a right. an inherent right, has not been clearly established. And I think until it is established that this is a right And not a privilege. And this is not an experiment. But the people exercising their rights. Until that is clear, clearly stated by the courts and sanctioned by the same, then it's not going to be successful, you can't continue to hold school behind the barricades.
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wide pan of college campus protests being broken up by armed officers with billy clubs. black and white men and women disperse as camera man films.
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white police officer with helmet and billy club holds hand cuffed black college student by the sweater
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white armed police officers holding billy clubs run through a student union strike clearing the area.
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dirty bloodied overweight tired black man in hand cuffs being escorted by two white officers
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angry screaming white young woman screaming during a protest
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Carlton Goodlett, civil rights leader - And what we're going to do, we're going to hold the fort, we're going to go to jail if necessary, until the solid white minority, you know, who are against black folks who loved black folks, but who never do anything but sit on their rear end. And they're never prepared to make any real contribution is man age or struggle against tyranny. So we're going to hold the fort until the silent in mobile faculty at San Francisco State College is recognizing that these young militants are attempting to save the soul of a great institution.
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Nathan Hare activist - As I know, even though I could be bad, but I've been all over the country. And I think that this is the the vanguard group, and they they have managed to pull a new thing, which is to get the bourgeois oriented community involved and the the white liberal community. And even the white conservative members, many of the white conservative community representatives involved in the struggle is being pushed at the present time, yet in the same, they still retain their blackness in their pluralistic perspective, just as any other black power group.
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close up pan out of Howard University entry gates
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African American college students walk past Howard University brick building
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voice over while older black well dressed man in fedora and glasses speaks to group of black men outside of a college building while waving his hand as he speaks to Howard University students.
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famale african american howard university students walk past brick building. plaid jacket, dark glasses
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Le Roi Jones voice over scenes of male and female black students outside of Howard University - A lot of times you find on the Negro College campuses, that the students are being held down harder than they were on these predominantly white campuses, because they're usually able to get a strong sense of collective effort, when they're isolated on the white campuses, and they move stronger, whereas on the Negro campuses, and I went to Howard, the administration and so Thomas, you know that they go out of their way, like at Howard, you know, we're neighbors, we once looked up to go out of their way to suppress, you know, so that you'll see we can appear on white campuses for a Black Student Union, actually, more quickly than we can appear at a, you know, at a Negro College, you know, for our own people. I mean, it's, it took more, I think, effort to get us at Shaw and Howard. In fact, I went to Howard one time, and they wouldn't even let me speak in the, in the auditorium, we finally had to go out on the campus and speak in front of the school of religion because they closed all the doors, you know, and they're so the Negros, a lot of times, they're so paranoid that the white people are going to get them or something, you know what I mean? That they're worse, actually, the Negro administrators turn on a lot of times to be, you know, worse than an administrator.
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Nathan Hare - I was, I was in a Vanguard I was in. I was there early in this movement, I went to 61 at Howard with the intention of the bearer, same thing we just have like that. And first being rejected for three years by the students because I couldn't understand and then when things change in society at large and black power and all that then the students began to move at least express an intention in that direction that brought about a clamping down by the administrators. So it seems to be an impossibility because the students themselves to get sort of comfortable in the sort of spirit of blackness there which you find you don't confront the white people daily here you're one young group mainly and you have all the soul food the soul mess in here and the dancing the music and you don't you don't have a daily conversation with john Jones gets a better break to you is because he john Jones, because he's well, well, more well to do because he is in a fraternity of some sort, but a white collar john Jones gets the break. He got up because he's white to the black student in many cases. So his daily confrontation is daily compact commuting from the the black community to the college, white college town. gives a daily sense of discrepancy between these two worlds and some other things when equally, that alone would cause the black student at the white college to be more aware of their fate and their situation. And to be impelled to do more about it.
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Albert Cleague - I think the student movement has to be looked at very closely by black adults to know what direction we are going to go in because the students are going to move, because if I'm not mistaken, that is the basis and nucleus of a very strong group that is moving in this country right now the Black Panthers.
Kathleen Cleaver - As a matter of fact, the founder of the Black Panther Party, Huey Newton, started as a college student at married campus moving to get Afro American history on the curriculum of that college at this point now in 1968, Merritt College has a Black Studies program and you can get a degree in that this is where he began actively in his black nationalist activities on the coast. But in terms of the Black Student Movement, you have to go much further than that back to 1960. in Greenville, North Carolina, where the Spurs sit in began, and this is the beginning of the whole overt protest movement in this country. It began with black students. The Black Panther Party announced counties, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, black students, the Black Panther Party, Bobby Seale, and Huey Newton, black students in wherever you look, the real impetus of change has come out of the youth who were in school and who and the position to sit back and analyze some of the things are going on, and we're willing to take action. What's so significant now is it's not the college students only that are moving, but it's all the way down to junior high and even elementary schools they're all moving. |
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William Greaves - Black journal has learned that w CBS TV and Columbia University have agreed to the demands of the black Advisory Committee of the new educational series Black Heritage as a result of their agreement. The committee now controls the content of the programs and the selling of all books that may be published relating to the series. In addition, agreement has been reached for wider press coverage through a black public relations agency and the use of a black cameraman on the series. In sports. Roy Campanella has been elected to baseball's Hall of Fame. oj simpson has been named Sportsman of the Year by sport magazine, Lew alcindor has was cited as the top performer in college basketball, and Arthur Ashe as the top performer in tennis. We extend our congratulations to all for 1968 it was a busy year for the black theatre and this year promises more of the same. The Neo community can currently choose from such plays as to be young, gifted and black, a composite of marine hands various work big time buck white, which recently arrived from watts at Berlin's play in the wine time at the new Lafayette theater, and the Negro and sambal companies. God is a guess what? There is a growth of cooperatives and a number of black communities across the country. The lightest of these are located in East Harlem, a furniture store and meat market are being financed and operated by East Harlem residents. For more parents living house.
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Still shot of Roy Campanella elected to baseball's hall of fame.
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Still shot of young OJ Simpson sportsman of the year by Sports Magazine.
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Still shot of Lew Alcindor dunking a basketball in a UCLA 33 jersey.
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Still action shot of Arthur Ashe
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Lou House reports in front of an African American mural - President Nixon has proposed several plans which he claims will assist the afro American to get a piece of the action. And one of these plans is to give tax incentive to white industrialists for training the so called hardcore unemployed. That's us on the IBM cards in those low income areas. You know, it's quite obvious that the white man will profit from this venture. Now, what remains to be seen is whether we will another one of the plans is the president calls it black capitalism. They call it that it's become part of a large portion of our discussions in the black community, black capitalism brothers and sisters, but I think we're talking about our own schemes, and we're talking from a different viewpoint to get our thing together.
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African Americans gather around a Grand Opening of a grocery store
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Young black bank teller in red business attire counts cash at a bank teller desk.
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pan shot through bank with african american female tellers
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shot of the outside of a shop window with Buy Black sign posted in it promoting black capitalism.
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black man styles a black women in traditional African clothing. They are in a store with traditional african clothing and patterns hanging in the back ground.
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traditional African clothing and quilts hand from a clothes line blowing in the wind in an outside field.
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Black seamstresses holding colorful materials sitting at an old sewing machine making clothing. Close up of black woman at a sewing machine smiling as she works.
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Older black man in white work shirt enters a barber shop.
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close up of back man in page boy hat concentrates as he carefully paints a business sign.
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shadow like shot of a black window washer.
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01:40:28 2428.16 |
Black people boycotting Fulton Supermarket. "Don't shop until the pigs stop" sign. Black Panther rally.
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01:40:34 2435 |
Huey Newton, Black Panther Leader.
This aggression in the economical area is as real as aggression physically by the racist police that occupied community is a foreign troop occupied occupied territory. |
01:40:48 2448.62 |
Kathleen Cleaver
I think it's been very clear throughout our history, that there is no interest, or any policy or any effort on the part of the power structure to share the resources of this country, with the oppressed black people. So therefore, the black people must have these resources, then they must take some |
01:41:20 2480.89 |
Andrew Young
But you know, throw you know, I mean, black capitalism scares me to death. So you because all I see is black pawns stepping on top of poor people, rather than the, the, the Jews who dominate the ghetto, or the Syrians who dominate, you know, the other minority groups, there's just a shift of power at the base. I think what this country needs, and frankly, I came thinking revolutionary terms, because I can think of them but when I think in, because I got better sense than the see that I just don't see any possibility of revolution right at this moment. And so I'd rather quit talking about revolution and talk about what is possible. And what is possible is to take something like black capitalism, and if people know what they're doing, build a base for economic control of their neighborhoods, so that they can affect the the police power, they can affect basic decisions, you get get best way to get rid of the police problem is the way we did in Selma. We got him out of office. And all the way you did in Tuskegee, you put a black sheriff in. |
01:42:29 2549.29 |
Bill Strickland -
This is a country with 6% of the world's population that controls 60% of the world's resources. It's international capitalism, the way in which it came to power was through taking the land of the Indians and using black people to develop the land, there was no people for us to exploit, except ourselves, we cannot go down the road that white capitalism went down, we are not producers. And the only way in which you could get into that position is if in fact, the federal government gave us billions of dollars to become producers. And you went to the point that of the 20 congressional committees, 13 are run by Southern crackers and of the 16 senatorial committees, Senate Committees tend to run by Southern crackers. So white racist power stands in the way of evil of this kind of solution. |
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Jim Brown
We'll say this is the mistake of a lot of people. We already have a lot of money within black communities. And the disappointing thing is that black people never utilize the money and power that they already have. And what I would say is that if we can utilize what we already have, because we're great buyers, we like high quality things over utilize this power, then we can develop it into more power. |
01:43:38 2618.12 |
Carlton Goodlett, civil rights leader
We talked for 20 years, we tried to get Cadillac to allow black people to sell Cadillacs to black people. But just think of it, we're a 10 11% of the population that we were buying about 22% of the new Cadillacs. 30% of the old Cadillacs used Cadillacs. And we couldn't even sell these cars, our people. |
01:43:55 2636 |
Lessie Jackson -
In 1955. We were behind curtains in some southern cities. So just to have the privilege to sit middle ways the buses progress. Then we got to the front of the bus. The next question was driving the bus. The next one was being an executive at the bus company. And now the question, which is the Black Power question, that's why we've not had since we have the most customers, can we all on the bus company? |
01:44:23 2663.56 |
Jim Brown -
saying all we want to do is like, have people pick up the idea of like, hey, yes, I can go into business. I can develop this way I can start this factory. I like once we get the thinking going along with a little bit of Jewish thinking going you know, because these cats, they circulate that money from brother cousin to you know, whatever have you. |
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Fannie Lou Hamer. American voter and women's rights activist. Older African American close up in messy bedroom.
What we are trying to do in sunflower county is to try to start some kind of self help project. We have so far about 50 female pigs and these Pigs are going out to 50 families. And as these female fine litters of pigs, the families will give back to pigs to the pig bank. And then it will keep going up until people be able to have enough meat because you know, kids suffering this counting for malnutrition. I'm 51 years old, and adopted New York told me a couple of weeks ago, that I got such a shortage, I have to now have four oranges a day, and I have to eat raisins, I don't have iron, I don't have vitamins, and all this kind of stuff, I think it's a shame. And until we can gain some economic power alone with the political power, it's just gonna get worse. |
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slow pan along run down southwest Alabama street. lower income houses
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William Harrison close up interview in front of brick building.
Southwest Alabama farmers Co Op is one of the mini program, and probably the only one of the mini program in the south that is completely supervised or controlled by black. |
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horses pulling a wagon filled with two african american men through a corn field.
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camera pans through a cotton field as well dressed older african american women harvest crop
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close up of older african american woman missing teeth in a turban and plaid shirt in a cotton field. pan to other black women picking cotton from the field.
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William Harrison -
Our feeling is that it is the only way that the co op could succeed and be a successful business venture, that it has to be controlled by blacks, because the whites will manipulate the system to the extent that it makes it ineffective. This too, has been one of the reason why we've had many problems from local person, local whites. |
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Roy Innis
let me say that I am not a black capitalist, do not consider my approach to Black Economic Development is black capitalism. At the same time, I'm not a Marxist either. I'm a black nationalist. And we talk about the acquisition of capital instruments for black people. Now, if someone want to call that back capitalism makes a lot of quarterback capitalism. So before him, we know what we're talking about. There are some black brothers who do consider themselves black capitalist. And that's fine for them. I was like it to be clear that we are the Congress of Racial Equality. And those of us who consider yourself out of that black man, black nationalists, do not talk and describe yourself in Western European terms, either as Marxist or as capitalist, as communist. So anything else we are black nationalist. And we believe in the philosophy of black nationalism, and the economics that flows naturally from that. |
01:48:28 2908.51 |
Julian Mayfield - There are people running around talking about building a black automobile industry, when there is no such thing in Latin America to the best of my knowledge, with the possible exception of Argentina, where they assemble cars. And you have to ask yourself, they are separated from the United States, they own currencies. There are flags all over Africa, their own currency, their own flag, their own geographical territory, and even now, over a lot of Africa have control of their own political structure. And yet, they are still dependent upon the United States or its client states. So when you talk about setting up your own competitive economics against the dominant economic system, it seems to me that this is truly the world of fantasy. What must happen, I think, is that there must be an overthrow.
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Richard Moore, Historian
There's no fantasy with me. I am for beginning where we are, and we certainly are within this system. So that begin to begin to do anything about it means that we begin within it now. So we begin within it, and we begin with the program. Our program is one of struggle. Our program is is one of up doing everything that we can to improve the position which we have, while we work for fundamental and revolutionary change of the system. And besides, you will never achieve the overthrow of a system, if you don't begin with the immediate demands of the people, because you will never be able to mobilize them for the overthrow of the system. Not Not Not just by waving a flag and me and me doing some shouting, suppose you organize the people for this, you will organize them in the course of developing struggles, against their oppression for the things that they need. And they will clarify themselves as they go along. And then we'll come the great moment |
01:51:19 3079.75 |
Julian Mayfield
I think the I've said it before on the program. So I'll just repeat myself. I think we're in for a period of repression. I think that white America, which Mr. Moore seems to think I overestimated power, but I've lived under the during my years as he and I have a respect for the amount of power he has. white America is not going to tolerate. But so much black America is in a fighting mood also. And that there is going to be more and more confrontation. And that it is the wise thing for the black man to prepare for it in every way possible. So that he does not wake up one morning, find his community entirely surrounded, and he is without weapons to fight his way out of it. Dan Watts, Liberator Magazine I think for 1969, I think it's going to be the year for us to put up or shut up. I think it's probably another way of saying what Julian has just said, I think that the white power structure which has financed our cultural revolution, in terms of you know, is underwritten just about every aspect of of our cultural revolution. I think they're going to says all right now you've had your you've you've had your cultural revolution, this is it now shut up. And at this particular junction, I think this is where we are really going to be pressed to either put up or shut up. And as I said, this gets him to evolve in programs. And certainly self defense is certainly part of it. ***Video Glitch - Partially unusable*** Claude Brown, Author I think we've had quite a year, to put it mildly. And I think one of the most significant events of the year that we've overlooked here and our list of of meaningful topics to discuss this evening. occurred in Cleveland during the summer. See, now this said something to all of white and black America something that Stokely Carmichael couldn't say that the Black Panthers couldn't say that rap brown couldn't say and that Claude brown couldn't say and that Dan watts couldn't say, and on the other notables who are constantly in the public's eye via television. See, these guys can always be gotten to, but to suddenly have an unknown Group, a group who hasn't been heard on nationwide TV or radio, jump up and say, okay, fellows, it's time let's go to war with the police. And I think what this said to white America, is that, look, we've heard all that rhetoric. And we've heard all the militancy and all the threats coming from that purportedly enraged black community. But like we've seen something this year. And what we've seen, we don't want to see this anymore. And something's gonna have to be done about those black folks. And I think they're getting ready to do it. And the only way there'll be any black people around here who did open their mouths, at the end of 69. They'd better get ready to protect them, whatever they've got to say. I think the crowd was Cleveland staff. Richard Moore I think the Kerner report has recognized the situation developing in America in a way that has not been recognized before, namely, that the nation is splitting up into two opposing camps. The so called hike camp and the so called back camp Now certainly Certainly, this is a process, which will continue in 1969. You have a minute. Yeah, so the only question, the only question is, will Afro Americans simply simply yield the the the, the struggle for their survival? Which I don't think they will. And as a result, there will be self defense on the part of Afro Americans. Nobody can actually condemn people who defend themselves. And on this basis, we have to be prepared to defend ourselves. But at the same time, we must keep in mind that the best defense is not only the mobilisation of our own force, but of all other forces of all the forces around us. |
01:55:56 3356.42 |
William Greaves -
What about the implications for the future? I mean, not for the future. But for the for international implications. Are there any international implications? I mean, for this whole movement toward a hardening of position. Claude Brown I think that definitely is one major, or perhaps even more, but there's one that I'm aware of major reference to the international world. And this is in relationship to America. And this is that, you know, once I think that we can really start something here, black Americans, if we begin to get sassy, the whole world will say look at look at what the minority is doing to that giant in that country. And then Latin America will be hard to handle. And then Asia will be hard to handle. And then Africa will be hard to handle. And pretty soon America won't look so big man being attacked from all corners of the world. And within two. Richard Moore there is one phase of the international situation, which gives some hope it is that there was an intervention against Hitlerism. And there if we do have to go through a similar phase in America, I believe there will be an intervention which would be helpful to the effort. |
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Lou House closes out the show
Thank you gentlemen, very much. Well, brothers and sisters, that set for blank journal tonight. I'm Lou house with William graves. We'll be back with you on Monday, February 24. One gay Sergei. |
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Episode closing credits.
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