Like it is
Subtitle: Arthur E. Thomas interviews leaders on Black America
By: edited by Emily Rovetch.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: E. P. Dutton
Published: 1981
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 169
Subjects: African Americans -- Biography.; African Americans -- Social conditions.; African Americans -- Civil rights.
Genres: Biography.
Description: Civil rights leaders from Rosa Parks to Hank Aaron discuss their personal experience and the black experience in this collection of interviews. Here are their insights on self-respect and excellence, apathy and activism, racism in the courts and racism in sports, the FBI and Dr. Martin Luther King's assassination, potential black presidents, blacks and suicide, black students on white campuses, the Bakke decision, personal plans and victories, the relationship between black men and woman, and priorities for the future. These interviews, here accompanied by brief biographies, were recorded at Central State University and shown on the television series, Like It Is.--From publisher description.
Table of contents: title: Maya Angelou.; title: Henry Aaron.; title: Louis Stokes.; title: Rosa Parks.; title: Benjamin Hooks.; title: Nikki Giovanni.; title: Alvin Poussaint.; title: Parren Mitchell.; title: Michele Wallace.; title: Jerry Paul.; title: Julian Bond.; title: Jesse Jackson.