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this no and if they can review mr rosen at the news today is the question of why the rules they believed that what is against obama
we don't know i suspect is i know the whole and i'm wondering do you know that was set up a sail sale in the issue that need to be human that you had to do you ought to join for you enjoy and the prejudices still fit radiant one that you know but the pro forma for reviews american record that it was his real estate agents eventually this house and so it should
be interesting to me i'm a national educational television the reason people want an issue in june of nineteen sixty three california passed the fair housing law that became known throughout the state as the run for act outlawed discrimination in the sale or the rental of nearly all public and private housing and it set up state machinery to handle complaints california's real estate association almost from the day they act became law again an active campaign to strike him from the books more than one million names were collected for an initiative calling for the nullification of the room for that along with all of the fair housing act in
california this initiative which is on the california ballot now under the heading of proposition forty also prohibits the state from passing any future fair housing legislation not surprisingly ban proposition fourteen has become california's major political issue today perhaps even overshadowing the senatorial and the presidential campaign is the most community organizations within the state have come out for the rumford act and therefore against proposition fourteen the church in the civil rights groups unions the mexican american community these have all come out against proposition fourteen as has the state's democratic party nevertheless many citizens of quietly lined up in favor of proposition forty while eu republican party has not taken a stand on the issue many of senator goldwater supporters are active campaigners for yes on forty and it is also becoming clear so are a number of johnson democrats
the loss of property that is the fear that the government is once again intruding in their lives the older bob and not so dom and prejudices leasable bad themselves during this campaign human rights versus property rights leaders call the battle and it has become a rallying cry and yet ironically wildly slow ongoing of the campaign has affected nearly every citizen in the state it is not necessarily brought every citizen closer to an understanding of the issues or even of the facts and bach the process has taken first part to get people to register see that they get to the polls and they vote that's the political work is a major job now we propose to look not the issue at proposition fourteen itself but at the way a political campaign fx people as they respond viscerally and intellectually to this particular issue in los angeles california hp
and in a lot of the view that we can have a point the pope many times by now
david thanks is he ready to do so that's the immediate question for the volunteer work is the issues and the debating can come later their job is to pass out by hand builds and the slogans were just a no vote no on fourteen it's important to know we need any
national jewish home of our monthly charge and race issue to this proposition forty and under the president's plan a copy of this will be mailed to every august one the company has been those bridges right speaker miles hollister a democrat a white anglo saxon protestant an active know on fourteen organizer in the mexican american community it is absolutely
this is it is financing opposition now we can go right to the role of the matter if we attack on the very reason that they have supported this thing to begin with entertainers like actor howard duff are also caught up in the campaign their contribution time and the use of their names for paid spot announcements over radio and television i was
reporting that a lot of your fellow americans i can say that they were going down your vote on what speaker mr spight but you can't proposition forty eight it is now or maybe not going forward at times there are so many organizations that no one is quite clear who is doing exactly what and so one man lewis lomax is called in to coordinate the activities of the negro community we're going on while we're sitting around the opposition and work and feverish and
just yesterday i got talent verifiable information and a voice of the city of new york no and the community you live in i think it is one want to preview a politician so poignant rolling pins then the lady and say that unless you can do with me that happening and we have a responsibility and it was a file or firing at the people to make the lead luke tries to decide
what we're going on the road thank you well working with a cat and forty in the legal community and i have met with a bit of the early part of an unkind to run the camp we divide ladies now
when you make sure you go across the tried to intern year year and barge into right across don't try to ride along with it and all david so when i we stay together for gun rights in the fall away their know who russell if you wanna get near someone that you want to talk to working in one of recording yeah i liked is a leading force you know the law that we're gonna take with an intake of civic with an ability to get people out of the ride back down to los angeles as a difficult city to cover you or by bicycle or by autumn its last one city learned as a spring of suburban towns connected bible of odds and why whizzing freeway each delegate its own separate identity and its own separate police force
most negroes los angeles actually has meant living in compton and watts aren't bitcoin allows of course a negro family has tried to lean over the wall into a middle class white community it's a high wall while one built a fear and hatred as well as a desire for privacy it was precisely to breach that the rumford act was passed by the state legislature last year however its first effect has been to galvanize the opposition a coalition a real estate interests private individuals and the extremist fringe groups all of whom are concerned either about the value of their property or about the preservation of their constitutional right of privacy was simply about the need to keep he goes ow and so a lot of political parties are forced to choose it so at wakefield a conservative republican campaigning for
office or even proposition fourteen wave from a with vietnam for only a bumper well my main issue in the campaign is an opposition girl and supporting proposition forty two years to a yes vote on this now there's a lot of confusion on how people should vote on this war we're in colliery years there are you know that is against the line
that now than you know go to the polls and vote against the room or will you go to the polls and vote this is a constitutional issue the play now that has been an issue thank you it's
been a great time what about the way he has too much of this anti this anti that people in my probably still important
it's bad times blue davies bc and that
means big name politicians but to many politicians they are noticeably absent that go on fourteen local landlord we need money opposition to proposition fourteen
has attracted a number of volunteer work is ranging from college students to housewives to active civil rights leaders but despite their passion and their sincerity they still often failed to sway the opposition reason and right as around their side they believe so how could any reasonable man resist once the light is revealed he says selling shares is going to continue
you know if you thought about it you know if you know something about robert acker talk at dalton then i suggest you go home and re read thoroughly and don't talk about richard i don't think you know because you don't even knowing that you know if that's on the robert hare over in reading your reading that i asked you again who does the aggrieved person apply to what's he feels that he's a great his right eye
so i think he's right that's a great actor not one analyze the great active even to me some point like reason why straight find otherwise well yes on portraying get away that do away with it when it comes to human rights i believe in him to a certain extent how i learned to an alien just like at the treatment so how long the same line i like to be treated as such and there are certain thank you both say they're adults and sellers and nineteen one another great soul latin or whether we're going to one where to now
twenty years old to me to prevent it here right right he is in this way
now those were so it's just where we live to get this news about it begins to mccourt oh well we are one of the society because i'm happy and it also raises another question i think is so important for you hear it raises a question about you know what are you really concerned after we've really necessarily take is that doing to us a little passage
and deep inside of me mr young republicans for yes on proposition forty eight billion dollars it says they started at the new law and though i can say is no and unless women not only in the present and in the ap the point that the
fbi has been nina it's bleak that is bernie an egypt philip
it begins with registration and it ends with election day or maybe it actually begins with election day for often only one the consequences of our x or brought home to us bui the voters begin to take stock of vacations only that we've been getting to perceive what they mean for us as citizens and what shape they give to us as a nation next week of people in politics presents less than the president's i mean i'm a national educational television network he comes back this is at a national
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Series
Of People and Politics
Episode Number
18
Episode
An Issue
Producing Organization
National Educational Television and Radio Center
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Library of Congress (Washington, District of Columbia)
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Episode Description
On November 3, 1964 Californians will go to the polls to vote not only for a President of the United States. They will also determine the fate of the highly controversial Rumford Act, which has become a bitter issue in the nation's most populous state. In 1963, California legislator W Byron Rumford, a Democrat introduced a bill that prohibits discrimination in the sale or rental of practically all real estate properties in the state because of race or creed. Passage of the bill by the Democratic-controlled legislature sparked bitter opposition by the California Real Estate Association, which launched a move to put a referendum on the state ballot. Labeled Proposition 14, it would in effect repeal the Rumford Act, and put into the state constitution a prohibition against all efforts by state or local authorities to act against any kind of housing discrimination. The chief opponents of Proposition 14, who are seeking the "No" vote are primarily Negroes and civil rights exponents. This episode reports on how the Rumford Act evolved from the national issue of civil rights; how the statewide dispute could affect national and state Republican candidates; and how the voter at the local level reacts to the controversy. With unusual camera work by Al Maysles, one of the leading exponents of cinema verite, this episode also records the intense responses of Californians and how they are caught up in the movement to get voters out to register. (Description adapted from documents in the NET Microfiche)
Series Description
This series is an effort to show in a comprehensive and exciting manner what's involved in US politics and what those politics are about. The series follows the progress of campaigns in the 1964 presidential election year, appraises the importance of campaign developments, and probes such matters as voter apathy, minority blocs, public opinion polls, the presidency, and campaign financing. To capture the complete scope of the nation's political system, NET's camera crews traveled across the United States to probe the views of government leaders, politicians, candidates, senior citizens, urban and rural voters, party workers, political analysts, and students. NET's unit also documented on-the-spot coverage of political events and developments relevant to the 1964 presidential election year. Of People and Politics was based upon research supplied by Operations and Policy Research Inc., of Washington, DC, headed by Dr. Evron Kirkpatrick, and including Richard Scammon, director of the US Census Bureau; Donald Herzberg, director of the Eagleton Institute at Rutgers University; Max Kampelman, a Washington attorney; and Mrs. Kirkpatrick, a political scientist. Series host Richard D. Heffner, a well-known broadcaster and educator, is former general manager of WNDT, New York City's educational television station. He directed special projects and public affairs programs for television starting in 1956 and previously taught history and political science. Mr. Heffner is the author-editor of several books, including A Documentary History of the United States and Democracy in America. Of People and Politics is a 1964 National Educational Television production. (Description adapted from documents in the NET Microfiche)
Broadcast Date
1964-10-11
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Topics
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Politics and Government
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00:30:11
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Associate Producer: Pels, Pat
Camera Operator: Maysles, Al
Director: Rigsby, Gordon
Executive Producer: Pickard, Larry
Executive Producer: Litchenstein, Gene
Host: Heffner, Richard D.
Producing Organization: National Educational Television and Radio Center
Writer: Litchenstein, Gene
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Chicago: “Of People and Politics; 18; An Issue,” 1964-10-11, Library of Congress, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC, accessed July 16, 2025, http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-516-7h1dj59b87.
MLA: “Of People and Politics; 18; An Issue.” 1964-10-11. Library of Congress, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Web. July 16, 2025. <http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-516-7h1dj59b87>.
APA: Of People and Politics; 18; An Issue. Boston, MA: Library of Congress, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Retrieved from http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-516-7h1dj59b87