A Verbatim Transcript of: A Forum: The Black Revolution and the White Backlash (Original transcript of the 1964 Town Hall forum) by David Susskind (moderator); Ossie Davis, Ruby Dee,, Lorraine Hansberry, Leroi Jones, John Killens, Paule Marshall, Charles E. Silberman, James Wechsler (panel) - 1964
by David Susskind (moderator); Ossie Davis, Ruby Dee,, Lorraine Hansberry, Leroi Jones, John Killens, Paule Marshall, Charles E. Silberman, James Wechsler (panel)
A Verbatim Transcript of: A Forum: The Black Revolution and the White Backlash (Original transcript of the 1964 Town Hall forum)
by David Susskind (moderator); Ossie Davis, Ruby Dee,, Lorraine Hansberry, Leroi Jones, John Killens, Paule Marshall, Charles E. Silberman, James Wechsler (panel)
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New York: Martin C. Johnson Reporting Service, 1964. Vintage transcript of the June 15, 1964 Town Hall Forum, The Black Revolution and the White Backlash, sponsored by The Association of Artists for Freedom, moderated by David Susskind, with panelists Ossie Davis, Ruby Dee, Lorraine Hansberry, Leroi Jones, John Killens, Paule Marshall, Charles E. Silberman, and James Wechsler.
In 1963, the civil rights movement was profoundly and indelibly altered by the horrid bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama by the Ku Klux Klan, killing four young African American girls and wounding up to 22 others. In response to the atrocity, a coalition of Black writers, performers, and activists, including James Baldwin, Sidney Poitier, Clarence Jones, Ossie Davis, and Ruby Dee, formed The Association of Artists for Freedom. One of the most significant events organized by the Association was the forum presented in the transcript here.
Designed for white liberals and Black activists, the forum was an attempt to engage both parties in an open conversation regarding the tensions mounting between them in the civil rights movement. Hansberry, quite ill at the time, was determined to participate, and famously declared, "We have to find some way with these dialogues to show and to encourage the white liberal to stop being a liberal and become an American radical." It would be her last public appearance before succumbing to pancreatic cancer in January 1965. The response to the forum was unsurprisingly polarized, with Harold Cruse declaring it "(a) radical, grandstand assault on white liberals," and Nat Hentoff arguing that the white panel members were just "estranged from Negro reality."
An uncommon contemporary documentation of a critical event in the civil rights movement of the 1960s.
8.5 x 11 inches. Card wrappers, bound with two gold brads. Pages Near Fine, wrappers Very Good plus.
In 1963, the civil rights movement was profoundly and indelibly altered by the horrid bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama by the Ku Klux Klan, killing four young African American girls and wounding up to 22 others. In response to the atrocity, a coalition of Black writers, performers, and activists, including James Baldwin, Sidney Poitier, Clarence Jones, Ossie Davis, and Ruby Dee, formed The Association of Artists for Freedom. One of the most significant events organized by the Association was the forum presented in the transcript here.
Designed for white liberals and Black activists, the forum was an attempt to engage both parties in an open conversation regarding the tensions mounting between them in the civil rights movement. Hansberry, quite ill at the time, was determined to participate, and famously declared, "We have to find some way with these dialogues to show and to encourage the white liberal to stop being a liberal and become an American radical." It would be her last public appearance before succumbing to pancreatic cancer in January 1965. The response to the forum was unsurprisingly polarized, with Harold Cruse declaring it "(a) radical, grandstand assault on white liberals," and Nat Hentoff arguing that the white panel members were just "estranged from Negro reality."
An uncommon contemporary documentation of a critical event in the civil rights movement of the 1960s.
8.5 x 11 inches. Card wrappers, bound with two gold brads. Pages Near Fine, wrappers Very Good plus.
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- Book Condition Used
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- Publisher Martin C. Johnson Reporting Service
- Place of Publication New York
- Date Published 1964
- Keywords African-American Interest | Social Justice, Radical, and Proletarian Interest | Civil Rights Movement | Writers | Actors | New York