In the first segment, Moakley and Representative Jack Kemp discuss the controversy over the football television blackouts and proposed changes to the way the broadcasting rights for football games in the U.S. In the second segment, Representative…
An activist in the civil rights movement, Bond served as publicity director for the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), as chairman of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and as first president of the…
Three weeks before he was jailed for leading peaceful protesters in Birmingham, Alabama, Dr. King addressed the Ford Hall Forum in Boston on March 24 1963. His address, "The Future of Desegregation," coincided with the centennial of the Emancipation…
The letter from the Massachusetts Black Legislative Caucus discusses the attack on Theodore Landsmark and other violent incidents in Boston, and is signed by representatives Mary H. Goode, Royal Bolling Jr., Doris Bunte, Robert Fortes, Raymond…
The Boston Busing Debate was an episode of the television show “ A Left and a Right” which originally aired on Boston’s Channel 5 and was co-hosted two broadcast personalities, the conservative Avi Nelson and the outspoken “Dean of Talk Radio” Jerry…
L to R: President Thomas Fulham, Allan Rohan Crite, Collection Librarian Edmund Hamann, and English Professor Dr. Edward Clark. Crite received an honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters at commencement in 1979.