Black Power Conference

The NYPR Archive Collections | Jan 1, 2000

The exact date of this episode is unknown. We've filled in the date above with a placeholder. What we actually have on record is: 1967-07-uu.

Eleanor Fischer reports on the First National Black Power Conference that took place from July 20th through July 23rd, 1967. She interviews several attendees of the conference, including James Lawson, the Director of the Nationalist Harlem Council on Economic Development, participants associated with the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, and Frank Smith from Mississippi.


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