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Description: TV SHOW, BLACK JOURNAL, WITH HOST LOU HOUSE, COVERAGE OF ISSUES CONCERNING BLACK AUDIENCE, 1969 03/31/69 The segment on politics in the Deep South will study the work of black office holders and aspirants, such as State Senator Leroy Johnson of Georgia and Charles Evers, who heads an all-black slate in Fayette, Mississippi. It will also examine the failure of the black electorate to make greater inroads into the white-dominated political scene, noting such factors as threats of violence, economic intimidation, and alienation from the political process. From Mary Holmes Junior College in Eastern Mississippi, Black Journal will present an address by Fanny Lou Hamer of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party indicating her intention to challenge Senator Eastland for his seat in 1972. On the floor of the Georgia State Senate, Senator Johnson will be seen in a floor fight for a teacher tenure bill, which was defeated through the pressure of white teachers, who fell that they need less protection than their black opposites. The health needs of black residents in the Deep South will range such problems as bad sanitation, lack of water, inadequate nutrition and the high mortality rate of mothers during childbirth. It will visit the Tufts Clinic and the Community Hospital in Mound Bayou, Mississippi, which provide virtually the only medical care for blacks in a four county area. At the Tufts Clinic, it will contain an interview with the only black obstetrician in Mississippi and it will examine comprehensive medical health plans throughout the area. The segment will scan the shacks in which precarious health conditions exist and will contain an interview with a midwife – one of a score to who childbirth is entrusted. At a county clinic, the segment will observe the prenatal work of a team for the University of Florida, operating under a Children’s Bureau Grant. The program will also report on the Lowndes County (Alabama) OEO Health Project and the work being conducted at Menarry University, an all-black medical school in Nashville, Tennessee. On the subject of welfare, the program will investigate the handling of surplus commodities and the distribution of food stamps. Another segment on Black Journal is devoted to highlights from this week’s UN hearings on apartheid in South Africa. Following the excerpts from the hearings, Black Journal will present a discussion of South African apartheid with Miss Yahne Sangare, a Liberian journalist who is UN foreign correspondent for some 20 African papers. Another discussant will be named.

Keywords: shack