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Say Brother; Black Politics; Feelings of exclusion from the political process in the African American Community
Part of Say Brother.
01/11/1976
In this clip Dr. Ronald Walters, Associate Professor of Political Science, Harvard University, explains why he thinks African Americans feel alienated from the political process. Overall the program analyzes why African American candidates were unable to win appointment to either Boston's School Committee or City Council in the 1975 elections. Guest host James Rowe of WILD Radio News speaks with Clarence Dilday (attorney and unsuccessful candidate for City Council), John O'Bryant (Director of the Dimock Community Health Center and unsuccessful candidate for School Committee), Richard Taylor (John O'Bryant's campaign manager), and Luix Overbea (reporter for the Christian Science Monitor) about why African Americans in Boston were unable to elect Dilday and O'Bryant, what the election says about the African American community's commitment to getting people in office, if election results would have been better if it had been an "off" year election, if an organization for raising funds to support African American candidates is in the making, and what African Americans can do to heighten their political sophistication. Additional segments include a survey of Boston's voting statistics for 1969, 1971 and 1975, an interview conducted by writer/researcher Dighton Spooner with Dr. Ronald Walters (Associate Professor of Political Science at Howard University) about African Americans and the 1976 presidential election, "Information" on registering to vote, "Access" (on the Roxbury-Dorchester JCs), and the "Community Calendar." Produced by Marita Muhammad Rivero. Directed by Conrad White.
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- Series
- Say Brother
- Program
- Black Politics
- Program Number
601
- Title
Feelings of exclusion from the political process in the African American Community
- Series Description
Say Brother is WGBH's longest running public affairs television program by, for and about African Americans, and is now known as Basic Black. Since its inception in 1968, Say Brother has featured the voices of both locally and nationally known African American artists, athletes, performers, politicians, professionals, and writers including: Muhammad Ali, Maya Angelou, Thomas Atkins, Amiri Baraka, Doris Bunte, Julian Bond, Stokely Carmichael, Louis Farrakhan, Nikki Giovanni, Odetta Gordon, Henry Hampton, Benjamin Hooks, Jesse Jackson, Hubie Jones, Mel King, Eartha Kitt, Elma Lewis, Haki Madhubuti, Wallace D. Muhammad, Charles Ogletree, Babatunde Olatunji, Byron Rushing, Owusu Sadaukai, and Sonia Sanchez. Series release date: 7/15/1968
- Program Description
Program analyzes why African American candidates were unable to win appointment to either Boston's School Committee or City Council in the 1975 elections. Guest host James Rowe of WILD Radio News speaks with Clarence Dilday (attorney and unsuccessful candidate for City Council), John O'Bryant (Director of the Dimock Community Health Center and unsuccessful candidate for School Committee), Richard Taylor (John O'Bryant's campaign manager), and Luix Overbea (reporter for the Christian Science Monitor) about why African Americans in Boston were unable to elect Dilday and O'Bryant, what the election says about the African American community's commitment to getting people in office, if election results would have been better if it had been an "off" year election, if an organization for raising funds to support African American candidates is in the making, and what African Americans can do to heighten their political sophistication. Additional segments include a survey of Boston's voting statistics for 1969, 1971 and 1975, an interview conducted by writer/researcher Dighton Spooner with Dr. Ronald Walters (Associate Professor of Political Science at Howard University) about African Americans and the 1976 presidential election, "Information" on registering to vote, "Access" (on the Roxbury-Dorchester JCs), and the "Community Calendar."
- Asset Type
Clip
- Media Type
Video
- Subjects
- Roxbury-Dorchester JCs
- O'Bryant, John
- African American politicians--Massachusetts
- Civil rights
- Dilday, Clarence
- Taylor, Richard
- Segregation
- Local elections
- Overbea, Luix V. (Luix Virgil)
- Voting
- Walters, Dr. Ronald
- Genres
- Magazine
- Topics
- Race and Ethnicity
- Creators
- Barrow-Murray, Barbara (Associate Producer)
- White, Conrad (Director)
- Rivero, Marita (Producer)
- Contributors
- Rowe, James (Host)
- Cogell, Lloyd (Still Photography)
- McGuire Nicholas, Sallie (Production Assistant)
- Spooner, Dighton (Researcher)
- Boston Art Ensemble (Theme Music)
- Publication Information
- WGBH Educational Foundation
- Citation
- Chicago: “Say Brother; Black Politics; Feelings of exclusion from the political process in the African American Community,” 01/11/1976, GBH Archives, accessed April 24, 2024, http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/V_662B7FE04CBB477AA642DD9651C0BCC9.
- MLA: “Say Brother; Black Politics; Feelings of exclusion from the political process in the African American Community.” 01/11/1976. GBH Archives. Web. April 24, 2024. <http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/V_662B7FE04CBB477AA642DD9651C0BCC9>.
- APA: Say Brother; Black Politics; Feelings of exclusion from the political process in the African American Community. Boston, MA: GBH Archives. Retrieved from http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/V_662B7FE04CBB477AA642DD9651C0BCC9