LIKE IT IS {SPECIAL SERIES PRESENTATION}: A DECADE OF STRUGGLE {PART 2 OF 3} (TV)
Summary
One in this series of public affairs programs, hosted by Gil Noble. This special three-part presentation examines the history of the black civil rights movement in the United States, emphasizing the role of black leaders and activists. Part two features interviews with former State Sen. Julian Bond (D-Ga.); Stokely Carmichael, former chairman of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC); James Farmer, former national director of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE); William Strickland, professor at Amherst College and former SNCC member; Eldridge Cleaver, former minister of information for the Black Panthers; and Ella Baker in a 1979 interview. Featured in historical footage are the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.; Malcolm X; Charles Simms, leader of Deacons for Self-Defense and Justice; author James Baldwin; SNCC coordinator Ivanhoe Donaldson; SNCC advisor Ella Baker; Aaron Henry and Robert Moses of the SNCC; James Foreman and H. Rapp Brown, both former SNCC chairmen; comedian/activist Dick Gregory; Roy Wilkins, former executive secretary for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP); and others.
Details
- NETWORK: WABC-TV
- DATE: May 25, 1980 1:00 PM
- RUNNING TIME: 0:54:37
- COLOR/B&W: Color
- CATALOG ID: T90:0177
- GENRE: Public affairs/Documentaries
- SUBJECT HEADING: Black Panthers (organization); Blacks - Politics and suffrage; Deacons for Self-Defense and Justice; U S - Civil rights; African-American Collection - News/Talk
- SERIES RUN: WABC (New York, NY) - TV series, 1968-
- COMMERCIALS: N/A
CREDITS
- Jim Lutton … Executive Producer
- Gil Noble … Producer, Host
- Frank Olivo … Director
- Ella Baker
- Julian Bond
- H. Rapp Brown
- Stokely Carmichael
- Eldridge Cleaver
- Ivanhoe Donaldson
- James Farmer
- James Foreman
- Dick Gregory
- Fannie Lou Hamer
- Aaron Henry
- James Baldwin
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
- Malcolm X (Malcolm Little; El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz)
- Robert Moses
- Charles Simms
- William Strickland
- Roy Wilkins