C-SPAN's American Political Archive: Robert Penn Warren Civil Rights Interivews

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During the month of October, C-SPAN Radio's American Political Archive is tapping in to the Robert Penn Warren Civil Rights Oral History Collection at the University of Kentucky. These interviews with a number of civil rights leaders were conducted by Kentucky native, author, and first Poet Laureate of the United States, Robert Penn Warren in 1964 as research for his book Who Speaks for the Negro, published in 1965. The taped interviews were discovered while his papers, also located at the University of Kentucky Libraries Special Collections and Archives, were being processed. This marks the first-ever broadcast of these recordings.

Hear an interivew with Malcolm X, later known also by the religious name El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz, African American activist. His militant views that Western nations were inherently racist and that black people must join together to build their own society and value system had an important influence on black nationalist and black separatist movements of the 1950s and 1960s.

American Political Archive
10/07/2006: WASHINGTON, DC: 1 hr.6 min

James Baldwin (1924-1987), American writer, whose focus on issues of racial discrimination made him a prominent spokesperson for racial equality, especially during the civil rights movements of the 1960s.

American Political Archive
10/14/2006: WASHINGTON, DC: 54 mins.

Vernon Jordan (1935- ), African American lawyer, business executive, former president of the National Urban League and the United Negro College Fund, and adviser to President Bill Clinton.

American Political Archive
10/21/2006: WASHINGTON, DC: 1 hr. 9 mins.

Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968), American clergyman and Nobel prize winner, one of the principal leaders of the American civil rights movement and a prominent advocate of nonviolent protest. King's challenges to segregation and racial discrimination in the 1950s and 1960s helped convince many white Americans to support the cause of civil rights in the United States.

American Political Archive
10/28/2006: WASHINGTON, DC: 56 mins.


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