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Black Journal #7 (Black News Show) Host: Lou House and William Greaves Initial Broadcast Date: December 30, 1968 60 minutes – Color Guests: LeRoi Jones, poet playwright (“The Dutchman”) and Newark Community leader Claude Brown, author of “Manchild in the Promised Land” Dan Watts, editor of Liberator Andrew Young, assistant director of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference Mrs. Kathleen Cleaver, wife of Eldridge Cleaver & communications secretary of the Black Panthers Julian Mayfield, co-author and star of the film “Uptight” and former writer for President Nkrumah of Ghana Robert Johnson, managing editor of Jet Bill Strickland, former executive director of the Northern Student Movement Alexander Allen of the Urban League Richard Moore, author-historian Description: Pertinent to Black Journal #7, the men discuss major developments of 1968 – notably the death of Martin Luther King, the election of Richard Nixon, the growth of the black consciousness, and the course of dissent. Blacks have been able to utilize the mass media through demonstrations, which are “propaganda tools to mobilize power,” according to Andrew Young. But Bill Strickland notes that the most potent demonstration of 1968 – at the Chicago convention – was almost exclusively white. There, the police problem became public knowledge. Chicago, however, was not the first “police riot,” Strickland notes, listing also Newark and Watts. Commenting on the death of Dr. King, Mayfield notes that blacks took to the streets because “symbolically we had been shot too.” The election of Nixon means that “the whites are getting themselves together, and we’d better do the same,” says Mayfieild.
Voting and Women's Right Activist, Fannie Lou Hamer, talking about her shock and anger when she heard that Martin Luther King had been shot and killed. Stating she was very angered, how could this happen to a man that had given his life for his fellowman.
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