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Say Brother; Malcolm X; Bobby Seale interview
Part of Say Brother.
02/20/1974
This clip is an excerpt from program dealing with the impact of Malcolm X on African American political and intellectual leadership in the United States. Bobby Seale, co-founder of the Black Panthers, talks about the impact of the murder of Malcolm X on the Black Panther movement. Overall, the program focuses on the impact of Malcolm X on African American political and intellectual leadership in the United States. Host Topper Carew speaks with Dr. John H. Clarke (historian and Cornell University professor), Owusu Sadaukai (National Chairman of the African Liberation Day Committee), and Bobby Seale (cofounder of the Black Panthers) about the impact of Malcolm X's work on their personal ideologies, the opinions of African Americans, and the struggle for Black rights in the United States. Interviews are separated by segments of archival news footage featuring Malcolm X discussing his political philosophies (program contains a particularly strong segment from the speech he delivered to the students of Selma, Alabama a few weeks before his assassination in 1965). Produced by Topper Carew. Directed by Conrad White.
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- Series
- Say Brother
- Program
- Malcolm X
- Program Number
317
- Title
Bobby Seale interview
- 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 focuses on the impact of Malcolm X on Black political and intellectual leadership in the United States. Host Topper Carew speaks with Dr. John H. Clarke (historian and Cornell University professor), Owusu Sadauki (National Chairman of the African Liberation Day Committee) and Bobby Seale (cofounder of the Black Panthers) about the impact of Malcolm X's work on their personal ideologies, the opinions of Black Americans, and their struggle for Black rights in the United States. Interviews are separated by segments of archival news footage featuring Malcolm X talking about his political philosophies. Program contains a particularly strong segment from a speech delivered to the students of Selma, Alabama a few weeks before his assassination in 1965.
- Asset Type
Clip
- Media Type
Video
- Subjects
- African Liberation Day Committee (National)
- Sadaukai, Owusu
- Segregation
- Black nationalism--United States
- African American leadership
- Civil rights
- African Americans--Civil rights
- African Americans--Attitudes
- Seale, Bobby, 1936-
- Clarke, John Henrik, 1915-1998
- Genres
- Magazine
- Topics
- Race and Ethnicity
- Creators
- White, Conrad (Director)
- Carew, Topper (Producer)
- Jones, Vickie (Associate Producer)
- Contributors
- Davis, Tony (Assistant To The Producer)
- Johnson, Henry (Filmmaker)
- Publication Information
- WGBH Educational Foundation
- Citation
- Chicago: “Say Brother; Malcolm X; Bobby Seale interview,” 02/20/1974, GBH Archives, accessed April 25, 2024, http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/V_DDC27D8E35BF41CCBF640EDC54727BAB.
- MLA: “Say Brother; Malcolm X; Bobby Seale interview.” 02/20/1974. GBH Archives. Web. April 25, 2024. <http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/V_DDC27D8E35BF41CCBF640EDC54727BAB>.
- APA: Say Brother; Malcolm X; Bobby Seale interview. Boston, MA: GBH Archives. Retrieved from http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/V_DDC27D8E35BF41CCBF640EDC54727BAB