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Like it is : Arthur E. Thomas interviews leaders on Black America / edited by Emily Rovetch.

Title
Like it is : Arthur E. Thomas interviews leaders on Black America / edited by Emily Rovetch.
Author
Thomas, Arthur E.
Publication
New York : E. P. Dutton, c1981.

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Description
xvi, 169 p. : ill.; 22 cm.
Summary
Civil rights leaders from Rosa Parks to Hank Aaron discuss their personal experience and the black experience in this collection of interviews. Here are their insights on self-respect and excellence, apathy and activism, racism in the courts and racism in sports, the FBI and Dr. Martin Luther King's assassination, potential black presidents, blacks and suicide, black students on white campuses, the Bakke decision, personal plans and victories, the relationship between black men and woman, and priorities for the future. These interviews, here accompanied by brief biographies, were recorded at Central State University and shown on the television series, Like It Is.--From publisher description.
Subject
  • Civil Rights
  • Black or African American > history
  • African Americans > Biography
  • African Americans > Social conditions
  • African Americans > Civil rights
  • United States
Genre/Form
Biographies
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Maya Angelou.--Henry Aaron.--Louis Stokes.--Rosa Parks.--Benjamin Hooks.--Nikki Giovanni.--Alvin Poussaint.--Parren Mitchell.--Michele Wallace.--Jerry Paul.--Julian Bond.--Jesse Jackson.
ISBN
  • 0525931937 :
  • 0525931945 (pbk.)
LCCN
^^^80025676^//r82
OCLC
  • 6890428
  • SCSB-11442572
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library