Plain Speaking; 1
- Program
- Plain Speaking
- Episode Number
- 1
- Producing Organization
- KPFA
- Contributing Organization
- Pacifica Radio Archives (North Hollywood, California)
- AAPB ID
- cpb-aacip-f116c7d21b0
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- Description
- Episode Description
- Part 1: From Columbus to the Election of Washington
- Program Description
- Series record for "Plain Speaking." Produced in 1976 by Pacifica radio station KPFA in Berkeley for the country's bicentennial celebration, this alternative to traditional American history taught in public schools traces the nation's history form the arrival of Christopher Columbus, through the various social movements of our first 200 years, giving voice to the many unheralded people who fought for equality and justice and who helped facilitate change so that all could prosper. Part 1: From Columbus to the election of Washington Part 2: Slavery Part 3: Mexican-American War; Civil War; Emancipation; Building the Railroad Part 4: Indian Genocide; Pioneers; Labor Movement of the late 19th Century Part 5: World War I; Red Scare; Harlem Renaissance; Lynchings in the South; Depression; Urban Family Life in a Packinghouse Town Part 6: Puerto Rican Independence Movement in the 30\'s; World War II; Postwar Red Scare; Execution of the Rosenbergs Part 7: The Fifties; Allen Ginsberg; Puerto Rican Revolutionaries; Rosa Parks; Black Anger Rises Part 8: The Sixties; Martin Luther King, Jr.; Free Speech Movement; Emancipation Proclamation Centennial Part 9: The United Farm Workers; People\'s Park; Victory in Vietnam; Women\'s Movement Part 10: Stirrings in the Workforce; Puerto Rican Independence; American Indian Movement; San Francisco International Hotel; United Auto Workers Leader pbcoreInstantiation:
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Producing Organization: KPFA
- AAPB Contributor Holdings
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Pacifica Radio Archives
Identifier: cpb-aacip-9a9e7e63f98 (Filename)
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- Citations
- Chicago: “Plain Speaking; 1,” Pacifica Radio Archives, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC, accessed September 30, 2025, http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-f116c7d21b0.
- MLA: “Plain Speaking; 1.” Pacifica Radio Archives, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Web. September 30, 2025. <http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-f116c7d21b0>.
- APA: Plain Speaking; 1. Boston, MA: Pacifica Radio Archives, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Retrieved from http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-f116c7d21b0