9/11/68
Initial Broadcast Date: June 23, 1969
60 minutes – Color
Outstanding segments from the series’ first year will be repeated on this anniversary program. It is expected that they will be:
-- From Program #1: A report on the Black Panther party in Oakland, California, featuring a behind-bars interview with Huey Newton while he awaits trial. Newton, who has since been convicted of manslaughter for the shooting of a policeman, discusses his efforts in helping to found the party and defines its goals. Also interviewed in the segment is Panther chairman Bobby Seale.
-- From Program #2: Folksinger Leon Bibb’s insight into children’s games, noting regional differences in their language and meaning.
-- From Program #3: The semantics of color, as seen by nightclub singer and pianist George Taylor. It examines how the language has served to derogate the black man with such references as “a black mark.”
-- From Program #4: The growth of a Louisiana cooperative, organized as a farming enterprise by Father McKnight, a black parish priest. The cooperative has now taken on a manufacturing function as well and provides candy to Barricini’s and other large chains.
-- From Program #4: A choreographed exercise in karate by an expert who incorporates modern dance into this athletic ritual.
-- From Program #6: The dilemma of the black policeman in a daily conflict between duty and race. New York patrolman Dave Walker typifies this dilemma with his refusal to be “judge, jury, and executioner” by shooting a looter fleeing with a case of beer. Also interviewed on the segment are two high-ranking black policemen, Deputy Inspector Arthur C. Hill of New York and Lt. Edward C. Henry of Los Angeles and a Los Angeles patrolman, Harrison Bailey.
“Black Journal #13” is an NET production
Executive producer: William Greaves
Managing Editor-Producer: Tony Batten
Hosts: Lou House and William Greaves
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