URL: https://digitalcollections.hoover.org/objects/6060
Collection Structure Firing Line broadcast records >  Episode guide >  The Republic of New Africa
Item Title The Republic of New Africa
Collection Title Firing Line broadcast records
Guest Henry, Milton
Host Buckley, William F., Jr. (1925-2008)
Date Created November 18, 1968
Description "The Republic of New Africa" is not a new name for, say, South Africa: it refers instead to a proposal by a group of American blacks who "don't believe," as Mr. Henry puts it, "there's ever been any historical example of a successful bi-racial society," and who therefore want to carve out a legally separate nation-formed, probably, from Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, and South Carolina. Agree with him or not, Mr. Henry is well spoken and well traveled (he draws illustrations from, e.g., Kenya, Tanzania, and Cuba, all of which he has visited): "We are a nation, a distinctly separate nation with a different set of humor, myths, way of looking at history, a totally different view of ourselves in this country from I would imagine a view which most white people have, and we are separated ... from most of the good things of American life."
Subject(s) Republic of New Africa (Organization) Black nationalism Southern States
Language(s) English
Country of Origin United States
Place Recorded New York City, New York, United States
Dimensions Duration: 50 minutes
Format Moving Image
Medium television programs
Aspect Ratio 4:3
Aspect Ratio 4:3
Color color
Color color
Soundtrack sound
Soundtrack sound
Hoover ID Program 126
Record Number 80040.126
Notes Video available through Amazon.
Collection Guide https://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/kt6m3nc88c
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