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Black Workers Remember
“During his fellowship year at the National Humanities Center [1995-96], Michael Honey, the author of a prize-winning book on labor and civil rights in the American South, is at work on a new project — an oral history of black workers at the time of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Poor People’s Campaign.” [Wayne Pond]
The Good Negress
First-time novelist A.J. Verdelle talks about The Good Negress, a powerful account of the shaping of a young woman’s intelligence during the early years of the civil rights movement.
Understanding [Martin Luther] King
Adam Fairclough, author of Martin Luther King, Jr.: A Brief Biography and Race and Democracy, appraises the life and times of one of the central shapers of civil rights worldwide.
Taming the Storm
A description of the life and times of Federal Judge Frank Johnson, Jr. and the rise of the civil rights movement. An analysis of contemporary trends in southern politics.
Civitas Latinoamericana
A discussion of human rights and civil societies in Latin America.
The Civil Society Part 4
Eduardo Rabossi discusses human rights in Argentina. Zhang Zhilian discusses intellectuals and politics in contemporary China.
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From Protest to Power: the Recent History of Civil Rights in the United States Part 4
Clayborne Carson is the author of In Struggle: SNCC and the Black Awakening of the 1960s (Harvard University Press) and, with David Garrow, the editor of Eyes on the Prize, America’s Civil Rights Years: A Reader and Guide (Penguin Books).
John Hope Franklin‘s most recent book is George Washington Williams: A Biography (University of Chicago Press).
From Protest to Power: the Recent History of Civil Rights in the United States Part 3
Steven Lawson is the author of Black Ballots: Voting Rights in the South 1944-1969 and In Pursuit of Power: Southern Blacks & Electoral Politics 1965-1982 (Columbia University Press).
Robert J. Norrell is the author of Reaping the Whirlwind: The Civil Rights Movement in Tuskegee (Alfred E. Knopf).
From Protest to Power: the Recent History of Civil Rights in the United States Part 2
Paula Giddens is the author of When and Where I Enter and In Search of Sisterhood (William Morrow & Company, Inc.m NY).
Mary King is the author of Freedom Song (paperback edition, 1988, William Morrow & Company, Inc., NY
From Protest to Power: the Recent History of Civil Rights in the United States Part 1
William Chafe is the author of The Unfinished Journey: America Since World War II and Civilities and Civil Rights: Greensboro, North Carolina and the Black Struggle for Freedom (Oxford University Press).
From 1969-1975, Howard Lee was the first black mayor of a predominantly white southern town, Chapel Hill, NC, since the reconstruction. He served as Secretary of the Department of Natural Resources and Community Development under Governor James B. Hunt, Jr., of North Carolina.
From Protest to Power
Steven Lawson is the author of a forthcoming book entitled From Protest to Power: Civil Rights and Black Politics Since 1945.
Philosophy and Public Policy
Does philosophy affect public policy? What contributions does philosophy make to the ways in which Americans think and act about issues such as civil rights, the conduct of American foreign policy, the treatment of animals, and our notions of equality and fairness at home and overseas?
Philosophy and Public Policy, Part 7: Professional Ethics, Civil Rights, and Affirmative Action
David Moore and John Caldwell comment on distinctions between higher education and university life in England and the United States. They address questions of national standards and admissions selectivity, as well as the process by which universities are established, funded, and accredited in both countries.
At the time of this interview, David Moore was principal of Nelson and Colne College in Lancashire, United Kingdom, and an education advisor to Grenada Television International. John Caldwell was Chancellor Emeritus of North Carolina State University.
After a break [10:15], William Bennett, Steven Cahn, and James Rachels continue their discussion on philosophy and public policy in part seven of the series on the topic. They review the main lines of the debate over affirmative action, the state and inequality, and discriminatory activity in America. Addressed along with these topics are some attempts to correct past policy missteps and the idea that “two wrongs don’t make a right.” Included in this debate is how the public perceives fairness. Another issue raised is the notion that philosophers should have “answers” to life’s questions; included are discussions on the nature of moral agency and the average person’s responsibility for his or her own actions.
William Bennett was director of the National Humanities Center at the time of this interview. Steven Cahn was a visitor to the National Humanities Center from the Rockefeller Foundation. James Rachels was the Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences and a professor of philosophy at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.
This edition of Soundings was conducted by Wayne J. Pond.
Supreme Court and Limits of Judicial Power
John Agresto talks about constitutional democracy and the United States Supreme Court. He juxtaposes the influence of the Court – an institution he views as the most powerful in the country – with its “disquieting” history of errors in judgment and policy. He also envisions a process whereby the qualifications, personal character, and legal opinions of potential Supreme Court justices may be carefully vetted by both the Congress and the Executive Branch so as to ensure they are “fundamentally defensible.”
At the time of this interview, Agresto was a Fellow at the National Humanities Center (1978-79) and professor of political science at Kenyon College.
This edition of Soundings was conducted by Wayne J. Pond.