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[BEEP] [SILENCE] [MUSIC] [MUSIC] pound the subways of New York City for an investigation into the Transit Authority Workers Union. Bill? historian dr charles hamilton makes projections of what after americans can expect from the seventies five of the country's various athletes bill russell arthur ashe johnny sample jackie robinson and harry edwards meet with bill to discuss the role of the black athlete in the black community before he was ten

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together to challenge racism which has prevented us from getting our fair share of job opportunities in america the record is clear a star was cracked unions have excluded blacks the federal government has enforced anti discrimination laws state and local doctor says often condone discrimination the struggle goes on across the country in the private as well as the public sector concentrating in the construction automobiles stealing calling industries and in all public employment construction has been hardest hit by black protest statistics show black workers will only two percent of the eight hundred thousand high paying skilled jobs in this industry blacks already and many major unions have former black caucus as to demand that these unions relate to the needs and aspirations of black workers they want a real voice in union policy making or black workers are in the majority they're insisting on control of the unions for instance the new york citi bikes and puerto ricans make up the majority of workers in the rapid transit system for the

areas controlled by whites a group called the rank and file committee for democratic union is determined to change that they're struggling to overthrow part why controlled te wu and set up their own union which were fairly represent black and puerto rican workers he's with these were a tuna i mean while committees objective is to establish electorate and they need to do this they must first obtained signatures from thirty percent of transit workers and call for a state supervised election for twenty eight thousand transit workers but dzhokhar the president the right to file committee explains why his

group's exchange disney thank you it is i'm sorry they're appealing to both black and white workers for the signature is

maintaining that an undemocratic union betrays the objectives of all we're just amazed that almost seventy percent of transit workers are black and puerto rican leadership are still seventy five percent white union leaders they say are elected by mail ballots were actually colored by union officials ever have a real chance because the mental illness a mail ballot well after negotiations are concluded and activist the result of any potential strike threat this sort of the union doesn't really live in a region where church and that some supervisors discriminate but they face a difficult fight it is hard for them to reach large numbers of workers because at this time the organization is small they have the outsiders like the resources at vanguard and they are challenging a rich and powerful union

that's a nice day i found out that they were so vulnerable on this question because of the fact that they didn't have an integral couple says they only had about two offices to executive board offices out of about thirty two quote fallout for vice president of the union that these people don't represent the blog where does that industry is the people that do exactly what they're going to with roosevelt once executive vice president of the transport workers union and has one of the common the dissident this land has tried to run for office in his unit

last word is about ten years ago he ran for such an officer with hal conductors <unk> level and there he was recruited he was defeated day out of about three thousand volts i'm thinking a hundred and fifty it was the last night i can file charges that is controlled and says joel carnegie has no support among the westerns two years later he was successful enough to get the required amount of signatures and he ran for the president of local one hundred and how about nineteen thousand ballots cast got about two thousand that's right it is we tried to run an opposition

slaves within the union vote against the top offices and once they do that they just don't have a chance because they counted from the workers' wages it's it uses the undemocratic bilbao is also used in ratifying contracts about others on rather than there's no conference and so what happens is that they have made that when the union in advance of montana's that shoved down our throat so yes so that's one of the reasons why we thought that it was necessary to go through the necessary steps getting a thirty percent of aig can't or representational action to decide who will be to solve our

transit workers delaney simmons they're forbidden by chance of a forty regulations to solicit signatures on to a property and were previously arrested at this location they assert that they have no real access to great numbers of workers unless they reach them on the job why are you

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property what the lender while the group was constantly faced with an apparent double standard in the slow pace at the league doesn't organize on to a property and they demand the same rights and then in a transit authority assignment room supposedly off limits for union organization works it wu literature as plainly and evidence it's been

carnegie's group no absolute freedom of all the truth about a property there's only one is that record and that was with a transit policeman in that would address what they do yeah i'm seventy disciplinary procedures call your record mr

dr william roman chairman metropolitan transit authority a transit authority workers other refused to appear for an interview to discuss the rank and file charges are your members these other top aid officers or transport workers local one hundred and one point and file contends that mr watts was appointed as a direct result of their earlier efforts for more like representations to members of the joint executive authority wu the policymaking and yolk it addresses a regular monday night organizers me

every month and they are passing you know what this means is that signature is that we can get a representation of much of the union representation election to decide who are the vessel at ws thank

you it is yeah the country

what workers are clearly saying unions must institute democratic reform or face stiff challenges from an increasingly militant white labor movement you did thank you

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jenny the a good camp the nigerian civil war is over like americans look to niger to fulfill its great promise as a major african nation of a law that sought to be torn into by prejudice and subversion from within and hostile foreign pressures from abroad should be a stern lesson to black people everywhere perhaps novel white americans were leftover naked starting the

africans on africa's their concern was suffering people in their own country and lamont democratic controlled southern part of africa has for us perhaps as we observe the new unity among your laws the houses and he goes and the hundreds of other ethnic groups of nigerian afro americans will push to settle the remaining differences among us so we may have greater unity on our post game of nightmares over niger as african nation can resume the important after revealing so what will the seventies the whole clubb afro americans what have the past year meant to our struggle for freedom what effect will events of the sixties have on the present decade not charles hamilton professor of political science at columbia university conference the year nineteen sixty nine was a reflection of the decade of the nineteen sixties in terms of action in the white community one might view events of the past year and project in the nineteen seventies in terms of three major categories thursday black struggle as broadening its base of

but as a patient and beginning to add new targets to its protests examples of this would include that the increased activity all welfare rights groups and blackstone organizations like rise we saw the demand by blacks that the white churches began to put their money where some of their individual ears of that all the time on the line in the form of demands reparations to blacks for years of those churches but as a patient and then benefit from a ration system it wasn't fact is that the black male in america has worked from sixteen nineteen eighteen sixty five without due compensation for his labor the calculation and what in fact is the real figure for reparations as something amore tundra comes may well and to take second the year witnessed a continued moon to consolidate local political economic power the demands for community controlled schools community control of police and land continue

evidence a growing electoral power was shown in various elections around the country this year in fayette mississippi greene county alabama and in several northern cities this electoral organization kampala will continue and directly into the nineteen seventies with more blacks being elected office where the numbers and the organizational skills come together and these will be black elected officials more responsive to their black constituencies where they too will feel a punishment of rejection and later elections because it's a it's quite unlikely that the intense struggle for political power will be ways to simply to be turned over to traditional a new forces and the shame a question only nineteen sixty nine was a very harsh reminder of the repressive nature of the system in the form of continued killings of members of the black panthers no one should be naive to believe that when a group begins to move that the system will not retaliate in some form or another

to counter this black struggle is constantly reminded that organization unity and scales very basic are absolutely essential nineteen sixty nine was a year of continued little struggle for black survival and development it was a year that set the agenda in the nineteen seventies the increased involvement of more groups and lodging that goes to include much more concern for the acquisition of political and economic power in addition to a legal and constitutional rights and finally greater demands for a re allocation of national economic resources i

think the one area in this country where we have demonstrated are excellent as the athletic freedom however we check it out with greater than america knows that the black athlete has also been the victim of volatility would like to apply brothers you know those were really thinking about the man who broke the color line in the country he went on a nineteen fifty two that the baseball hall of fame with a jackie robinson the voting affinities of how things like economic and political football in this country will russell the man who led the boston celtics to attend world championships over the last twelve years in nineteen sixty eight he became the first black coach in the national basketball association after winning the championship

bill russell retired a member of the team would successfully defended the davis cup this past fall for the past four years he has been the only black player in the lily white world of big league pennants it had window that has on the country we would even be considered for membership offer called the movie and i thought the invitation from the nineteen thirty one davis cup competition is left one about the defensive captain of the nineties sixty eight world champion new york jets he led the team that year in and that it had boosted of the entire nineteen fifty nine feet and with a serious back injury a veteran of ten years and will continue to be one of the more hopeful than like minimal i am with organized over the vatican out the stark black voters about the nineteen fifty eight geology i think the black athlete has had a very

large role to play in the soul of the spirit of the black community because it was a television out of sports as part of a bird those messages the mass media in this is it there's a lot of criticism from people who are great deal criticism these days the luckiest the mass media the news reporting etcetera but i think that the sports industry in and of itself has agreed to a responsibility the degree to which sports in fact has not brought people together in this is that it's because they haven't told the truth that would tend to under manned some of the established

institutionalized racism discrimination the prejudice that exist between people in a society they've tended to do the business that in fact what you see on the field is a hug ma actress topic yeah all portrait of reality in the masses that in that there's this is to the system consideration this is because apart from the time they were semi is no liberal as electric cars and they are getting a rueful there nobody really cares what they think in florida none of that civil defense and so you can say that this is

an example or this is beverage that causes that causes most deadly summer in lots of liquid social reason may be psychosomatic me with a sport maybe i will comfort so it doesn't driving force to make it a sport that is not know i would have not been to but the people that have these are your restaurant a successful landing in any field i think that i worked as hard and have him as much larger monthly at the rich where did as citizens are motivated and that is a hub for me was ever going to say that we're going to hunt angle and going to one of the kids in this review of it was i learned and if you're like me and only unfair to my stomach as a kid but my city kids do

this and find every day were to say that madame example of the reasons of the country that's not true because i have a feeling i'm an exception the problem that we have is that certain areas and what about that there hasn't been any significant advancement of developments that i think that we have to understand about the so progress on call that we've made is that must decide then the weekend cuban gates bill russell in basketball that nothing gets that bill russell and wilt when the courts are the same things happened in

any case you know would be acceptable but we still have to be used to have opposed the knob down the little barefoot tokenism it just all practical purposes we do not have any blacklisted and professional athletics all practical purposes not have anything that we're like you can go on to professional athletics and then do a good job and say well i can afford to be a manager our coach with cummings is that i get this question on serving back in contention in air that they say no tears remember do you mean and i'd like a comparison team sports was an effect in the small corporations they're still run for

stockholders want to make money not make money some items so enfranchise someone who thinks he can make money that extent the universal baseball to ready for hillary clinton is just like another small quarters president and vice presidents hierarchy of administrative work it is no different than a regime where that they may have some of the same religious attitudes about hiring lots of this alert level and as harris in tokenism may be construed as progress business in fact my biggest single reason that has it and the super bowl last year which isn't only because of advertising for one minute was about a hundred and eighty thousand dollars but some of that is ever been paid for what does the big athletic says

leave the nineteen twenty four years nineteen sixty nine as it is now a blog emilie most of this year the three star wars not an obama supporter roy the plentiful beardsley joins us and we was you know what does draw on as you go up the ladder no you have to work and strive to work that you have to salute the work where you have the courtyard and continued instructions allegedly negative official of this level football baseball does or whatever it may be you see things happening around the white athletes get sort of a it's really one of the contracting it's white dough manager at thirty and once there is a white marble animal bible belt loads more they also may be the place it used to happen in the spotlight at this isn't a zone of the white mountains and it's a job making fifteen twenty thousand miles and all season when the black ballplayers among the job than a hundred dollars a week these are the things that this one in which the

lack of legal they had been a professional football which i'm connecting with us what managers and coaches roaming the headquarters and of these things over the urban activist susan minister of britain and to know where on the job one of the assistant coaches for five years beginning to alex way that was consistent with the two years as you've been explaining their counselor about football that will allow these things are going to kill you now i mean is it is there anything that the black athletes can do about this or that the plans can too bothersome into changes to some of them demonstrators in nineteen sixty seven we get more movement in athletics away from the status quo than at any other time or a lot of the car that beat against the bad people in amateur athletics in particular

the whole movement around to litigate dhabi black athletes instead of that when i want to go to litigate because we did not feel that this country is getting off a just great as human beings that we have the last word of the skills we have to demonstrate that they are not the taliban well a pick atlanta little to stop an average of the people of all that i am and actually this is what i know this is my work i use this as a tool without and you have a tool to make a living and i can say they used their the two in order to lead and it just about my humanity not to demonstrate my humanity i don't think about it and now we can really where we reached a point where because there's no actually preceded us and i think that if the kids today don't worry it's not a matter of probability

it causes like it's now know i think his answers are where the investors who at this emerging was the word of the world well it's natural quite proud of the fact that the guys are standing up and being counted i don't i wish we had done the very same thing and we were i'm playing ball glitz that up i got scarcely at the onset they have a kind of troubles that they're having a day i think it is this present generation doesn't stand up and even more that once their kids are growing up playing out the same kind of promise all it builds these kids to stand up and hillary can they possibly can but there's one thing that concerns me and i wonder what the feeling is here ah honey feel about the situation where the south africans come here and the late gary player like i think it is safe to me to think that there'll be a song connelly says we were we've attempted to to contact a member of some of the summer golfers have had

difficulty getting in touch with him in the land that we have got in touch with you know where's your identity cooperation very much effort led them at a landfill in boston atlanta ga ga players themselves ayatollah once if assad can expect the golfers to join in and i think we need sportswriters doug o'neill of the games business and such organization of the formalities that in the whole thing at this critical part of the simple fact that the films what the protests live eventually leads back to me in one way or another scene to haul the whole thing that we are developing a vision to open up on the ground that at around that this was coming for an athletic federation

that i think will take up a lot of slack that the number of us have been trying to hold down since as for the state wichita which is so what does he have that goes back to some point where you have to take the state you have to believe in something you have to have a principal and you have to stand up for it no matter what happens on the water pages damages them but one thing i think people watching the meantime the oven and look for a future is that that growing militancy among athletes is not gonna stop what it is is that is gaining momentum take a stand instead of getting better things are gonna get worse then as i said before a professional and things are themselves corporations they are products of the american ideal that

idea of sometimes twice that wasn't i was too has a half homeowners it is it is full of all the good and the bad as is it shows and instead of getting better it's going to get worse in years to more demonstrations that we see more oil manifest those one where another and to see more athletes even a ritual there were guys in their professional chess is saying whoa whoa that thing where the skiing on this this cause because of sorts though and i just said that and it's not that way headlines like the news conferences in the days when the case started moving his face in one place or another it became the best reason that and for five years the demonstrations are so commonplace there on page fifty and they had lines in english we must hurt a new tactic to gain the attention of the

public say i think i don't think there's any question that the decade the seventies in particular are going to be about the turbulent six instances were turbulent and turbulent without any particular program they were turbulent and as a drama to dramatizing affect your turban dramatic sense i think of the seventies a lot of the turbulent in a diabolical sons of people are going to sit down and what a match up of the management operational levels programs and what has happened i've attended these allies that they're not going to have time to really portion for them develop a program for middle class that the progress is allowed to sit down and look at the society and i want to begin to take a pot of those links of injustice and an impression but then there are those kinds of the last twenty years ago those things that one by one

i think that athletics is that there's going to be as much carbon is as if they were going to have some blind man's of the committee said that that was not the architect of a baseball game or a basketball that was just coming at the person huckabee and finance and this is the republicans and i think this is a parcel of the way we are the robert shelton says this country who come out of prison because of a refusal to make estimates that complex plan and then they go and testify that they're going to drive to suppress the negro in this country now we don't hear anything coming from the attorney general's office about this candidate it but to let the harry edwards a word an organizer was like the banana scene country comes up to me and not a word of this except a small thing in the newspaper about robert shelton sets if you'd like to make a bomb on a concern about robert so how i really

found that the robert shelton you can spot a mile of his cancelled toyota designers is the one i think that what we have to really be concerned about look i think that often has alluded to the constitutional relationships that have been perpetuated his conjugal the last fifty or sixty years since the seminal this week that have become entrenched along that landscape the middle out and respectable as going to church on sunday let me ask you this well i want to find out and on this track set up in life nothing i have never been so proud of individuals of tommy smith and john carlos olympic games i think this to me was the greatest demonstration of a personal conviction and private eye that i've really seen it and then the tissue has guy standing up there sander well as i saw it i'm proud i can't live like this has kind of a sudden you see a guy running around the ring wave of the flag and you get sick inside

was awful a wave of laughter but what concerns me now is the what i see is a very concerted effort to trial against these guys and i thought that brought a great deal dignity and self respect to the black community are you really here casale about what's happened tom has suddenly and what these guys who have really made black people tremendously proud not only overcome if what happened harry can that's how us live now is for ball for cincinnati bengals i asked lee evans isn't school and in those tunnels a john carlson school themselves a more severe mark whitaker the arctic has been an athletic simple vessel amateur there's no question that had thomas lipton's on cars that the american flag a man ran around here with that you know they have a vivid that they committed right on to

heart this is not the case that either been certain rules about communities in and around cincinnati to do everything from to with ten times about your contract is get the hell out of us has no authority to us led of the intimidation against his wife and families don't think i have the same thing is happening with earlier the house and all these athletes have come out of the problem i think that we have a responsible people such as jackie robinson thousands who has listened to have economic ties as political task but some point that people who are in positions to give these people some insulation should begin to get them set up in business together and tied into our positions where they can be assured of a lab right now the spot where they can be visible we could set these people out there are people like thomas within our citizens individuals say look like he backed the back is that the smugglers the

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