Perspectives; The Negro and the American Promise

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Series
Perspectives
Episode
The Negro and the American Promise
Producing Organization
WGBH Educational Foundation
Contributing Organization
WGBH (Boston, Massachusetts)
Library of Congress (Washington, District of Columbia)
Thirteen WNET (New York, New York)
AAPB ID
cpb-aacip-15-nv9959ck6g
NOLA Code
NOAP
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Description
Program Description
This hour-long program brings together prominent Negro leaders James Baldwin, Malcolm X, and Dr. Martin Luther King. By using film clips over parts of interviews - all of which were especially recorded for this program - The Negro and the American Promise emphasizes what sort of people these Negro leaders are, what their motivations, doctrines, methods, and goals are. Dr. Kenneth Clark hosts the program. He is a professor of psychology at the City College of New York, co-director with his psychologist wife of the Northside Center for Child Development, director of a new youth program in Harlem, and author of a highly-regarded study of race prejudice entitled Prejudice and Your Child. During the program, Dr. Clark is joined, in separate interviews, by: James Baldwin, artist and intellectual, whose writing has created a stir because of its articulateness regarding the racial situation and its artistic sensitivity. Malcolm X, outspoken author of the Black Muslims. The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference who is the leader of the current Negro non-violence protests that are sweeping the country. THE NEGRO AND THE AMERICAN PROMISE is a June 1963 production of WGBH-TV, Boston. (Description adapted from documents in the NET Microfiche)
Broadcast Date
1963-06-24
Asset type
Episode
Genres
Documentary
Topics
Race and Ethnicity
Social Issues
Subjects
civil rights leaders; Southern Christian Leadership Conference; African Americans Politics and government; African Americans Interviews; Civil Rights
Media type
Moving Image
Duration
00:00:00
Credits
Director: Barzyk, Fred
Executive Producer: Morgenthau, Henry, 1917-
Host: Clark, Kenneth
Interviewee: X, Malcolm
Interviewee: Baldwin, James
Producer: Maybank, Mary Rose
Producer: Morganthau, Henry
Producing Organization: WGBH Educational Foundation
Publisher: WGBH Educational Foundation
Supervisory Producer: Barzyk, Fred
Writer: King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968
Writer: Clark, Kenneth Bancroft, 1914-2005
Writer: King, Martin Luther, Jr.
AAPB Contributor Holdings
WGBH
Identifier: cpb-aacip-e396a9a8562 (Filename)
Format: VHS
Generation: Copy: Access
Duration: 00:01:00
Library of Congress
Identifier: cpb-aacip-60fa2ddc640 (Filename)
Format: 16mm film
Generation: Copy: Access
Color: B&W
Indiana University Libraries Moving Image Archive
Identifier: cpb-aacip-acab4893e8f (Filename)
Format: 16mm film
Library of Congress
Identifier: cpb-aacip-01dcffcbfa7 (Filename)
Format: 16mm film
Generation: Copy: Access
Color: B&W
Library of Congress
Identifier: cpb-aacip-a541a0f06b0 (Filename)
Format: 2 inch videotape
Generation: Master
Thirteen - New York Public Media (WNET)
Identifier: cpb-aacip-8bd892799de (Filename)
Format: 2 inch videotape: Quad
WGBH
Identifier: cpb-aacip-a549c36139c (unknown)
Format: Quicktime
Color: B&W
Duration: 00:00:00
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Citations
Chicago: “Perspectives; The Negro and the American Promise,” 1963-06-24, WGBH, Library of Congress, Thirteen WNET, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC, accessed May 20, 2025, http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-15-nv9959ck6g.
MLA: “Perspectives; The Negro and the American Promise.” 1963-06-24. WGBH, Library of Congress, Thirteen WNET, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Web. May 20, 2025. <http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-15-nv9959ck6g>.
APA: Perspectives; The Negro and the American Promise. Boston, MA: WGBH, Library of Congress, Thirteen WNET, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Retrieved from http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-15-nv9959ck6g