Plain Speaking: A Counter History of the United States (Series record)

PRA Archive #: 
AZ0033
Description: 

Series record for "Plain Speaking." Produced in 1976 by Pacifica radio station KPFA in Berkeley for the country's bicentennial celebration, this alternative to traditional American history taught in public schools traces the nation's history form the arrival of Christopher Columbus, through the various social movements of our first 200 years, giving voice to the many unheralded people who fought for equality and justice and who helped facilitate change so that all could prosper.

Part 1: From Columbus to the election of Washington
Part 2: Slavery
Part 3: Mexican-American War; Civil War; Emancipation; Building the Railroad
Part 4: Indian Genocide; Pioneers; Labor Movement of the late 19th Century
Part 5: World War I; Red Scare; Harlem Renaissance; Lynchings in the South; Depression; Urban Family Life in a Packinghouse Town
Part 6: Puerto Rican Independence Movement in the 30\'s; World War II; Postwar Red Scare; Execution of the Rosenbergs
Part 7: The Fifties; Allen Ginsberg; Puerto Rican Revolutionaries; Rosa Parks; Black Anger Rises
Part 8: The Sixties; Martin Luther King, Jr.; Free Speech Movement; Emancipation Proclamation Centennial
Part 9: The United Farm Workers; People\'s Park; Victory in Vietnam; Women\'s Movement
Part 10: Stirrings in the Workforce; Puerto Rican Independence; American Indian Movement; San Francisco International Hotel; United Auto Workers Leader

Station: 
Date Broadcast on: 
1976
Total duration (All reels): 
10 reels
Distributor: 
Los Angeles : Pacifica Radio Archive, 1975.
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