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Say Brother; Case of Justice, A; African Americans and the United States judicial system
Part of Say Brother.
06/29/1979
In this clip, Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz comments on the inability for Black Americans to receive fair treatment in the United States judicial system. Overall, the program is the first in a two-part series discussing the harsh sentencing of African Americans in the Massachusetts court system using the Paplo case, the Hakim Jamal case, and the Willie Saunders/Brighton rape case as studies in injustice. Host Barbara Barrow-Murray speaks with individuals involved with the cases, including Frank Neisser (Secretary to the Citywide Coalition for Justice and Equality), Mary Harris (mother of Edward Soares, one of the defendants in the Paplo case and member of Family and Friends of Prisoners and the Citywide Coalition for Justice and Equality ), Larry Gaines (Chairman of the Citywide Coalition for Justice and Equality), Professor Alan Dershowitz (with Harvard Law School), Saundra Carney (Coordinator for Brown, Johnson, Clinkscales Support Committee), and Undrey Sanders (brother of Willie Sanders, who was arrested for the rapes in Brighton, and representative for the Willie Sanders Defense Committee). Program includes interview footage with Dinizula Kamau (Efrid Brown, Jr.) and Abdullah Khalil Sabree (both convicted in the Hakim Jamal case) from Say Brother's visit to the Walpole correctional facility and viewer calls related to the cases. Produced by Barbara Barrow-Murray. Directed by Brian Clarke.
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- Series
- Say Brother
- Program
- Case of Justice, A
- Program Number
922
- Title
African Americans and the United States judicial system
- 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 is the first in a two-part series discussing the harsh sentencing of African Americans in the Massachusetts court system using the Paplo case, the Hakim Jamal case, and the Willie Saunders/Brighton rape case as studies in injustice. Host Barbara Barrow-Murray speaks with individuals involved with the cases, including Frank Neisser (Secretary to the Citywide Coalition for Justice and Equality), Mary Harris (mother of Edward Soares, one of the defendants in the Paplo case and member of Family and Friends of Prisoners and the Citywide Coalition for Justice and Equality ), Larry Gaines (Chairman of the Citywide Coalition for Justice and Equality), Professor Alan Dershowitz (with Harvard Law School), Saundra Carney (Coordinator for Brown, Johnson, Clinkscales Support Committee), and Undrey Sanders (brother of Willie Sanders, who was arrested for the rapes in Brighton, and representative for the Willie Sanders Defense Committee). Program includes interview footage with Dinizula Kamau (Efrid Brown, Jr.) and Abdullah Khalil Sabree (both convicted in the Hakim Jamal case) from Say Brother's visit to the Walpole correctional facility and viewer calls related to the cases.
- Asset Type
Clip
- Media Type
Video
- Subjects
- Neisser, Frank
- Citywide Coalition for Justice and Equality
- Harris, Mary
- Willie Sanders Defense Committee
- Dershowitz, Alan M.
- Sabree, Abdullah Khalil (William Johnson)
- Kamau, Dinizulu (Efrid Brown, Jr.)
- Segregation
- Civil rights
- Jamal, Hakim A., 1931-
- Gaines, Larry
- Discrimination in criminal justice administration
- African American prisoners--Attitudes
- Sanders, Undrey
- African American prisoners--Massachusetts
- Carney, Saundra
- Genres
- Magazine
- Topics
- Race and Ethnicity
- Creators
- Clarke, Brian (Director)
- Barrow-Murray, Barbara (Producer)
- Deare, Beth (Associate Producer)
- Contributors
- Hill, Rebecca (Fashion Consultant)
- Rivera, George (Post Production Supervisor)
- Pugliesi, Joe (Videotape Recordist)
- Barrow-Murray, Barbara (Host)
- Moore, Robert (Intern)
- Fairweather, Bill (Video)
- McKenna, Jim (Stage Manager)
- Brennan, Susan (Audio)
- Plausse, John (Lighting Director)
- Lane, Frank (Camera)
- Davidson, Wendy (Assistant Cameraman)
- Mahard, Fran (Scenic Design)
- Smith, Kathy (Switcher)
- Gray, Randolph (Camera)
- Lewis, Webster (Theme Music)
- Fong, Diana (Intern)
- Mackles, Gene (Graphic Designer)
- Wong, Evelyn (Production Assistant)
- Norton, Chas (Lighting Assistant)
- Publication Information
- WGBH Educational Foundation
- Citation
- Chicago: “Say Brother; Case of Justice, A; African Americans and the United States judicial system,” 06/29/1979, GBH Archives, accessed April 26, 2024, http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/V_9505CAA825F0444382DD673438C672E8.
- MLA: “Say Brother; Case of Justice, A; African Americans and the United States judicial system.” 06/29/1979. GBH Archives. Web. April 26, 2024. <http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/V_9505CAA825F0444382DD673438C672E8>.
- APA: Say Brother; Case of Justice, A; African Americans and the United States judicial system. Boston, MA: GBH Archives. Retrieved from http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/V_9505CAA825F0444382DD673438C672E8