Program

Kidnapping in North Carolina

A rebroadcast of Elsa Knight Thompson's and Mike Tigar's Eleventh Hour interview [May 4, 1962] with twenty-year-old John Lowry, a freedom rider who went to Monroe, North Carolina, to help in anti-segregation picketing and came back under an indictment on the same kidnapping charge lodged against the president of Union County's National Association for the Advancement of Colored P

Children in the dark / Daniel Blain and Lee Davenport; interviewed by Elsa Knight Thompson

Two psychologists discuss views of and treatment for mentally retarded children. Dr. Daniel Blain, Director of the Department of Mental Hygiene for the state of California, and Lee Davenport, President of the East Bay Association for Retarded Children, are interviewed by Elsa Knight Thompson. RECORDED: 28 Jan. 1960. BROADCAST: KPFA, 3 Mar. 1960.

The Negro lawyer in the South

James R. Walker, Jr. of the North Carolina Bar speaks before the session devoted to the lawyer's role in the battle to eliminate racial segregation, at the National Lawyer's Guild Convention in San Francisco, 1960. Walker speaks on his struggles as a Negro lawyer in the South and experiences fighting legal battles against discrimination in North Carolina.

The unions and discrimination

This is a recording of the floor debate at the 1959 National AFL-CIO convention regarding a resolution for the brotherhoods of trainmen and locomotive firemen and enginemen to bring their unions in line with the civil rights provision of the AFL-CIO's constitution. There was much protest of the resolution, because it had no time limit on ending racial discrimination.

On the power of peaceful persuasion speech by Martin Luther King Jr.

Speech by Martin Luther King, Jr. on the use of nonviolence in the civil rights movement recorded at the University of California, Berkeley. Introduced by U.C. Berkeley's Dean Hart and interviewed by Charles Levy. Dr. King opens his speech with a history of Africans in America, starting with the year 1619. He moves to the years 1955 and 1956, focusing on the Montgomery bus boycott.

Survivors of Ravensbruck / Maria Kusmierczuk and Jadwiga Hasa ; interviewed by Elsa Knight Thompson.

Dr. Maria Kusmierczuk, physician from Gdansk and Jadwiga Hasa, a pharmacist from Warsaw, two survivors from the German Concentration camp at Ravensbruck, Poland, describe their life there. Both women were members of the Underground Army, the Polish resistance movement in WWII.

The Mad Mitfords / Jessica Mitford ; interviewed by Colin Edwards.

English author, journalist, and political activist Jessica Mitford (1917-1996) discusses her book "Hons and Rebels" (V. Gollancz, 1960) about her unusual family with KPFA's Colin D. Edwards.

The irresistible force and the immovable object

A panel discusses attempts to organize California farm workers, grower-labor relations, and the living conditions of agricultural migrant workers in California.

The long road / Frank Wilkinson interviewed by Elsa Knight Thompson

Civil rights leader tells about his life and work.

Termination of tenure at San Jose State College / William T. Stanton and B.R. Hutchinson ; interviewed by Elsa Knight Thompson and Albert Bendich.

Two professors discuss their dismissal from San Jose State for exposing plans to deny anti-war activists admittance to the College.|TERMINATION OF TENURE AT SAN JOSE STATE COLLEGE / William T. Stanton and B.R. Hutchinson| interviewed by Elsa Knight Thompson. -Two professors discuss their dismissal from San Jose State for exposing plans to deny anti-war activists admittance to the College.

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