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Say Brother; Senior Citizens; Melnea Cass Interview
Part of Say Brother.
04/25/1974
In this clip Topper Carew interviews lifelong Boston community advocate and volunteer, Melnea Cass, about the work of the Council of Elders in providing services for the elderly in the Model City area. Overall the program focuses on the contributions made by, and services for, the elderly of Boston. Host Topper Carew interviews three prominent African American senior citizens: Melnea Cass (lifelong Boston community advocate and volunteer), Lometor Boston (volunteer), and Ralph J. Banks, and talks with them about programs available to seniors, their advice for young people, the cutting of federal programs, and their hopes for the elderly community. Program also contains a poetry reading by Bishop Curtain and a musical performance by Rowena Williams. Produced by Topper Carew.
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- Series
- Say Brother
- Program
- Senior Citizens
- Program Number
323
- Title
Melnea Cass 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 contributions made by, and services for, the elderly of Boston. Host Topper Carew interviews three prominent African American senior citizens: Melnea Cass (lifelong Boston community advocate and volunteer), Lometor Boston (volunteer), and Ralph J. Banks, and talks with them about programs available to seniors, their advice for young people, the cutting of federal programs, and their hopes for the elderly community. Program also contains a poetry reading by Bishop Curtain and a musical performance by Rowena Williams.
- Asset Type
Clip
- Media Type
Video
- Subjects
- African American women
- Williams, Rowena
- Cass, Melnea A. (Melnea Agnes), 1896-1978
- Older people--Services for--Massachusetts
- Civil rights
- Boston, Lometor
- Curtin, Bishop St. Clair
- Older African Americans
- Segregation
- Banks, Ralph J.
- Older people--Services for
- Moore, Charles
- Genres
- Magazine
- Topics
- Race and Ethnicity
- Creators
- Carew, Topper (Producer)
- Contributors
- Carew, Topper (Host)
- Publication Information
- WGBH Educational Foundation
- Citation
- Chicago: “Say Brother; Senior Citizens; Melnea Cass Interview,” 04/25/1974, GBH Archives, accessed April 25, 2024, http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/V_5913085B57A74E3A8331EE43BD92CAC7.
- MLA: “Say Brother; Senior Citizens; Melnea Cass Interview.” 04/25/1974. GBH Archives. Web. April 25, 2024. <http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/V_5913085B57A74E3A8331EE43BD92CAC7>.
- APA: Say Brother; Senior Citizens; Melnea Cass Interview. Boston, MA: GBH Archives. Retrieved from http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/V_5913085B57A74E3A8331EE43BD92CAC7