Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr.; S0301; Has President Carter Let Blacks Down?
- Episode Number
- S0301
- Producing Organization
- Southern Educational Communications Association
- South Carolina Educational Television Network
- Contributing Organization
- Hoover Institution Library & Archives, Stanford University (Stanford, California)
- AAPB ID
- cpb-aacip/514-0r9m32nw55
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- Description
- Episode Description
- Mr. Jordan, an old friend of President Carter's, had sharply criticized him for failing to look after the needs of the black community. This discussion begins with specifics like the poverty program, but then moves to the purpose of the civil-rights movement: was it to foster a color-blind society, or a society in which blacks qua blacks would advance? WFB: "Racial discrimination apart, why should there be a black lobby?" VJ: "Apart from discrimination? Discrimination is so much apart of us and of our lives that it cannot be separated so as to make up, Bill, a different aspect of American life. We are so interwoven with our history of neglect and inequity that you cannot separate us out." Currently there is only a digitized transcript available for this episode.
- Series Description
- The television series Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr. was a venue for debate and discussion on political, social, and philosophical issues with experts of the day. Firing Line broadcasts from 1966 through March 1971 were produced and syndicated by WOR-TV, a commercial station in New York, but some of them were also broadcast on noncommercial television stations. Starting in April 1971, Firing Line broadcasts were produced by the Southern Educational Communications Association, an arm of South Carolina Educational Television. Hoover Institution Library & Archives' Firing Line collection guide can be found at: https://www.hoover.org/library-archives/collections/firing-line.
- Date
- 1977-11-07
- Asset type
- Episode
- Genres
- Talk Show
- Topics
- Public Affairs
- Subjects
- Economic conditions; United States; Social conditions; race relations; African Americans; Carter, Jimmy, 1924-; Relations with African Americans
- Rights
- Copyright held by Stanford University. This copy is provided for educational and research purposes only. No publication, further reproduction, or reuse of copies, beyond fair use, may be made without the express written permission of the Hoover Institution Library & Archives on behalf of Stanford University.
- Media type
- Moving Image
- Credits
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Guest: Jordan, Vernon E. (Vernon Eulion)
Host: Buckley, William F., Jr.
Producing Organization: Southern Educational Communications Association
Producing Organization: South Carolina Educational Television Network
- AAPB Contributor Holdings
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Stanford University
Identifier: 80040.545 (Hoover Institution)
Generation: Proxy
Duration: 1:00:00
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- Citations
- Chicago: “Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr.; S0301; Has President Carter Let Blacks Down?,” 1977-11-07, Hoover Institution Library & Archives, Stanford University, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC, accessed June 28, 2025, http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-514-0r9m32nw55.
- MLA: “Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr.; S0301; Has President Carter Let Blacks Down?.” 1977-11-07. Hoover Institution Library & Archives, Stanford University, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Web. June 28, 2025. <http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-514-0r9m32nw55>.
- APA: Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr.; S0301; Has President Carter Let Blacks Down?. Boston, MA: Hoover Institution Library & Archives, Stanford University, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Retrieved from http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-514-0r9m32nw55