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Say Brother; School Issue, The; Plans to restructure the Boston School Committee
Part of Say Brother.
03/28/1974
In this clip Dorothy Jones, of Model Cities of Boston, discusses plans for the forthcoming restructuring of the Boston School committee. Overall the program explores the upcoming, special, April 2, 1974 referendum vote in Boston to chose one of four plans for restructuring the Boston School Committee, the results of which will be up against a referendum in the fall that proposes no changes be made to the School Committee. Guests Bill Owens (a Massachusetts State Representative), Dorothy Jones (of Model Cities of Boston), and John O'Bryant (of Dimock Community Health Center) debate the merits and weaknesses of each of the plans and speak to the need for local and minority representation in the school system. Discussion moderated by Lee Daniels, staff reporter for Channel 2 News. Produced by Topper Carew. Directed by Conrad White.
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- Series
- Say Brother
- Program
- School Issue, The
- Program Number
320
- Title
Plans to restructure the Boston School Committee
- 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 explores the upcoming, special, April 2, 1974 referendum vote in Boston to chose one of four plans for restructuring the Boston School Committee, the results of which will be up against a referendum in the fall that proposes no changes be made to the School Committee. Guests Bill Owens (a Massachusetts State Representative), Dorothy Jones (of Model Cities of Boston), and John O'Bryant (of Dimock Community Health Center) debate the merits and weaknesses of each of the plans and speak to the need for local and minority representation in the school system. Discussion moderated by Lee Daniels, staff reporter for Channel 2 News.
- Asset Type
Clip
- Media Type
Video
- Subjects
- Daniels, Lee
- African Americans--Education
- Jones, Dorothy
- O'Bryant, John
- Boston (Mass.). School Committee
- School boards--Massachusetts
- Owens, Bill
- Genres
- Magazine
- Topics
- Race and Ethnicity
- Creators
- Barrow-Murray, Barbara (Associate Producer)
- White, Conrad (Director)
- Carew, Topper (Producer)
- Daniels, Lee (Associate Producer)
- Contributors
- Carew, Topper (Host)
- Davis, Tony (Assistant To The Producer)
- Daniels, Lee (Host)
- Publication Information
- WGBH Educational Foundation
- Citation
- Chicago: “Say Brother; School Issue, The; Plans to restructure the Boston School Committee,” 03/28/1974, GBH Archives, accessed November 15, 2024, http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/V_480DE105CA1543F384BB0FD4F7F39C34.
- MLA: “Say Brother; School Issue, The; Plans to restructure the Boston School Committee.” 03/28/1974. GBH Archives. Web. November 15, 2024. <http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/V_480DE105CA1543F384BB0FD4F7F39C34>.
- APA: Say Brother; School Issue, The; Plans to restructure the Boston School Committee. Boston, MA: GBH Archives. Retrieved from http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/V_480DE105CA1543F384BB0FD4F7F39C34