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AUDITORIUM FULL OF PEOPLE MILLING AROUND, OPENING CREDITS ROLL AS THEY CHAT AND THEN TAKE THEIR SEATS TO WATCH PANEL DISCUSSION

OSSIE DAVIS OPENS THE LAST EPISODE OF THE SERIES. TALKS ABOUT THE MINISERIES AND WHAT THEY'VE STUDIED ALREADY. WANTS TO STUDY THE FUTURE. INTRODUCES GUESTS CHIEF S.O. ADEBO AMBASSADOR FROM NIGERIA TO THE UNITED NATIONS, ANTONIO OLENTO WRITER AND CRITIC FROM BRAZIL, DR. JOHN HOPE FRANKLIN HISTORIAN FROM THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO, DR. JOHN A DAVIS PRESIDENT OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY ON AFRICAN CULTURE, BASIL DAVIDSON BRITISH AFRICANIST SCHOLAR AND WRITER. OSSIE DAVIS ASKS THE OPENING QUESTION "DOES THE NEGRO HAVE A FUTURE?"

OSSIE DAVIS ASKS ABOUT THE WORD "NEGRO" BEING USED IN AFRICA. AMBASSADOR ADEBO TALKS ABOUT RACIAL MINORITIES AND A SORT OF CULTURAL OTHERING, GETS LAUGH ABOUT FUTURE OF THE CAUCASIAN IN NIGERIA. TALKS ABOUT INTERNATIONALISM, BRINGS IT BACK TO HUMANITY, RACIAL EQUALITY

OSSIE DAVIS THROWS THE QUESTION TO DR. FRANKLIN

OSSIE DAVIS SHIFTS THE CONVERSATION TO BRAZIL. ANTONIO OLENTO FROM BRAZIL TALKS ABOUT THE MIXING OF RACES AS A MEASURE OF PRIDE. TALKS ABOUT HIS COUNTRY'S HISTORY OF SLAVERY. TALKS ABOUT CHINUA ACHEBE VISITING BRAZIL. TALKS ABOUT THE BLACK AND WHITE SOCIETIES IN AMERICA AS BEING SEPARATE AND THAT IT DOESN'T LEAD TO EQUALITY BUT TO AN UNOFFICIAL SEGREGATION BECAUSE PREJUDICE IS STILL A FACTOR. RACIAL "AMALGAMATION" IS NOT OFFICIAL BUT CULTURAL AND SOCIETAL

BASIL DAVIDSON TALKS ABOUT INTERNATIONAL SITUATION, IMMIGRATION RESTRICTION BASED ON RACE, RACIST IMMIGRATION POLICY IN GREAT BRITAIN. TALKS ABOUT MORE CONFLICT TO COME. CRITICIZES HIS COUNTY'S SELF-CONGRATULATIONS, SETBACKS IN RACE RELATIONS. MENTIONS LABOR SHORTAGE. RACIAL "AMALGAMATION" MAY OR MAY NOT WORK, LONG RANGE PLANS

AMBASSADOR ADEBO TALKS ABOUT FACTORS OF CURING THE CAUCASIAN OF HIS RACISM, OPPORTUNITIES FOR AFRICAN-AMERICANS, "SPECIAL MEASURES FOR TRANSITIONAL PHASE" i.e. SEEDS OF AFFIRMATIVE ACTION PROGRAMS. TALKS ABOUT HAVING MORE DIFFICULTIES IN THE FUTURE. TALKS ABOUT APARTHEID IN SOUTH AFRICA. RACISM IN EVERY COUNTRY ON EARTH, PLIGHT OF AFRICA. AMALGAMATION "MICENGENATION" IS NOT A SOLUTION

AMBASSADOR ADEBO SAYS HE WANTS TO SEE AN AFRICAN LEADER OF THE U.N.

OSSIE DAVIS ASKS ABOUT SOUTH AFRICA

OSSIE DAVIS ASKS ABOUT THE RELATION OF AFRICAN AMERICANS "NEGROS" AND AFRICANS, INSTITUTIONAL LIES ABOUT AFRICA AND AFRICAN CULTURES

AMBASSADOR ADEBO TALKS ABOUT THE ROLE OF AFRICAN-AMERICANS IN HELPING TO ESTABLISH AFRICAN INDEPENDENCE, SAYS THEY MUST CONTINUE TO WORK TOGETHER IN GRASSROOTS WAYS

OSSIE DAVIS AND GUESTS ON STAGE. OSSIE DAVIS INTRODUCES QUESTION AND ANSWER PERIOD

YOUNG AFRICAN-AMERICAN MAN ASKS QUESTION ABOUT THE TERM "AFRO-AMERICAN" RACIALLY SENSITIVE LANGUAGE AND THE USE OF THE TERM INSTEAD OF "NEGRO". OSSIE DAVIS ANSWERS QUESTION IN TERMS OF AFRICAN PRIDE, BOTH ANCESTRY AND A NEED TO ESTABLISH A NEW IDENTITY SEPARATE FROM THE EMASCULATING CULTURE ASSOCIATED WITH THE TERM "NEGRO", AFRICAN AMERICAN MEN RE-CLAIMING MANHOOD

MIDDLE-AGED MAN IN AUDIENCE ASKS QUESTION REGARDING TERM "NEGRO" AND IF CHANGING LANGUAGE DOES ANYTHING, AND ASKS ABOUT WHERE THEY WOULD CHOOSE TO HAVE BEEN BORN IF THEY COULD, AND AKS IF RACIAL PROGRESS ON SEGREGATION COULD GO BACKWARDS. OSSIE DAVIS ANSWERS QUESTIONS HIMSELF. TALKS ABOUT THE HABIT OF TERMINOLOGY AND TAKING BACK THE TERM "NEGRO". SAYS HE WOULD HAVE BEEN BORN ANYPLACE OTHER THAN COTTON PATCH IN GEORGIAN WHERE HE WAS BORN AND GET HUGE LAUGH FROM AUDIENCE. OSSIE DAVIS TALKS ABOUT THE POSSIBILITY OF GOING BACKWARDS, COMPARES TO JEWS IN EUROPE BEFORE THE RISE OF THE NAZIS WHO THOUGHT THEY WERE SAFE, SAYS ECONOMIC DIFFICULTIES ARE RESETTING PROGRESS IN CERTAIN WAYS.

OLENTO TALKS BAOUT BRAZIL AND THE FACT THAT A MAJORITY OF THE COUNTRY HAS AFRICAN ANCESTRY

AMBASSADOR ADEBO TALKS ABOUT THE POSSIBILITY AND THE DANGERS OF CORRUPTION IN GOVERNMENT AND THE NEED FOR DEDICATED HONEST GOVERNMENTS

DR. FRANKLIN TELLS A STORY ABOUT A COLLEAGUE HAVING VISITED THE SOUTH AND SEEN RACISM AND DISCRIMINATION, AND FRANKLIN EXPLAINS TO HIM HOW RACISM IS PRESENT IN HIS OWN BACKYARD. HE TALKS ABOUT HIS OWN PROTESTS AND ALL OF THE MEETINGS AND CANVASING THAT PEOPLE ARE DOING, GRASSROOTS EFFORTS. SAYS IT'S AN INDIVIDUAL MATTER OF DEDICATION ABILITY AND TEMPERAMENT

AFRICAN AMERICAN MAN IN AUDIENCE ASKS ABOUT APARTHEID

OSSIE DAVIS ENDS SHOW, THANKS GUESTS PANELISTS, MENTIONS THAT THE CONVERSATION HAS BEGUN BUT CAN NEVER BE FINISHED. HOPEFUL NOTE

CREDITS ROLL OVER CLAPPING AUDIENCE PANELISTS GETTING UP AUDIENCE LEAVING

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