Program

The nerve of failure

Dr. Thomas Billings, assistant professor of education at Sacramento State College, delivers the fifth annual faculty convocation lecture at the college on May 22, 1963, at the invitation of his colleagues. Just prior to this date, both Dr. Billings and Dr. Edward Beechert, assistant professor of social science, had been refused tenure and a third man, Dr.

100 years of freedom / James Baldwin.

James Baldwin gives a talk at the University of California at Berkeley on the fight for Black Civil rights since the Emancipation Proclamation.

Duck and cover / panel moderated by Elsa Knight Thompson

Four peninsula children--Kathy Fitzgerald, Susan Whitaker, Fred Barnhart, and Robert Rogers--talk with Elsa Knight Thompson about civil defense drills. They discuss the "duck and cover" instructions they are given at drills at schools, where they get their information regarding atomic bombs, and their thoughts and feelings on radiation, war, and death.

A conversation with James Baldwin

Elsa Knight Thompson and John Leonard, Director of literature and drama, talk with the author of “The fire next time” and “Nobody knows my name” about both literary and political matters. Among other things, Baldwin discusses what comes after Birmingham in the civil rights movement, and why the critics attacked his novel “Another country.”

Down in the dumps in Arkansas

The late Joseph Busch reads his first-person account of what happened to him as a soldier wanting to be a writer when he lost his manuscript during a two-day pass in Fort Smith, Arkansas.

Ban racial incitement

Labour party M.P. Fenner Brockway explains his controversial bill to ban speech which incites racial and religious hatred in this conversation with Mike Tigar in London.

Abortion and the law.

A panel discussion sponsored by the Citizens' Committee for Humane Abortion Laws in San Jose in September 1962.

That jackass across the street / Derrel Myers interviewed by Elsa Knight Thompson

“That jackass across the street” is what a neighbor called Derrel Myers when he launched his 30-day vigil on the steps of the Atomic Energy Commission in Berkeley, to dramatize his support of the Everyman 1 crew serving 30-day sentence for its sailing. Everyman I and II were American boats that sailed from San Francisco for the Pacific nuclear testing grounds.

Paul Robeson : world citizen / interviewed by Elsa Knight Thompson and Harold Winkler.

Paul Robeson, noted actor and political activist, relates his personal history and views in this interview with Elsa Knight Thompson, KPFA, and Harold Winkler, then president of Pacifica Foundation.

Tune-in on Sacramento: crisis in the state colleges

A panel discussion on the past, present and future of the California State College system in light of the current financial crisis. Participants are Sacramento State College professors Harry Aron, psychology; Leonard Cain, sociology; Marc Tool, economics; James Lucas, psychology; and Ross Koen, Legislative Advocate for the Association of California State College Professors.

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