Miscellaneous footage relating to US race relations, including Eldridge Cleaver's lectures at UC Berkeley, 1968

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10.8.68. University of California, Berkeley. Student leader, Ed Flyn, speaking at press conference on legitimacy of Eldridge Cleaver's lectures. Dane Kemnitzer talking to camera about students' ang...

10.8.68. University of California, Berkeley. Student leader, Ed Flyn, speaking at press conference on legitimacy of Eldridge Cleaver's lectures. Dane Kemnitzer talking to camera about students' anger at college's inertia on the question of credit. Another student giving his opinion on Cleaver's lectures. 10.8.68 Colour. Berkeley, California. Exterior shots of campus. Students exiting hall after lecture, some talking to camera. Cleaver in sunglasses leaving the hall. Speaking outside to press, he states that he enjoyed giving the lecture. 10.9.68 Brooklyn, New York. Statewide teachers' strike. Police standing on steps of Junior High School 271 as children go in. People being pushed into police van. 12.11.68 Swan Quarter, North Carolina. Large crowd of African American people singing and clapping outside courthouse, demonstrating against an unfair desegregation plan. Smoke issuing from first floor window where eighteen youngsters are staging a sit-inches Demonstrators running along street. Boy jumping from the window. Injured jumper being put into ambulance. Demonstrators standing at the entrance to the courthouse where door had been opened to let students out. African American woman standing in street. 1.9.66. Atlanta, Georgia. African American radio station mixes music with race drama. Disc jockey, Shelly the Playboy, plays Percy Sledge in radio studio. CBS news reporter, John Lawrence, outside room from which DJ is broadcasting on WAOK. The DJ at work. Exterior shot of street in Atlanta. Recording of African American people acting out family situations in order to help families overcome their difficulties. A psychodrama session from which the tapes are made: African American actors sitting in garden shouting at each other. Psychologist Doctor Jerome Berlin, the Director of the Human Development Institute, talking about benefit of recordings. John Lawrence ending news broadcast. Final shot of Shelley the Playboy in the studio.

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