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Black Student Power
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Item Title Black Student Power
Guest Swedan, David
Guest Felder, John
Guest Coyne, John R.
Host Buckley, William F., Jr. (1925-2008)
Date CreatedFebruary 26, 1969
Description

Another look at the disruptions on campus, which, apart from the Vietnam War, have most to do, as WFB puts it, "with the demands of black students, or in some cases the demands made in behalf of black students." These involved matters such as separate living quarters, departments of Black Studies, and a voice in faculty hiring and promotion. (JF: "We feel that black students and faculty ... are most capable of determining who could teach from a black perspective"). Mr. Swedan is deliberately unresponsive ("I can only speak for what the white radical students like myself think"); Mr. Coyne, who had recently escaped from the wars at Berkeley and was working on his book The Kumquat Statement (a reply to James Kunen's Strawberry Statement), brings his recent experience to bear in querying Mr. Felder on exactly what he means by "Black Studies."

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Country of Origin
Place RecordedNew York City, New York, United States
DimensionsDuration: 50 minutes
FormatText
Medium television programs
Aspect Ratio
4:3
Color
color
Soundtrack
sound
Hoover IDProgram 142
Record Number80040.142
NotesVideo available through special order.
RightsCopyright 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.

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