Beginning on Thursday, January 28 and continuing thru Thursday, February 25, the Des Peres Branch Library, 5960 Kingsbury Avenue, will feature a brief series of films dealing with the Black Experience. The films are specials which were featured by the CBS Television Network during the summer of 1968. They are as follows:
Thursday, January 28 — “The Black Soldier” — the history of the black American’s participation in the wars to defend our nation, from the Revolution to the Vietnamese conflict.
Thursday, February 4 — “In Search Of A Past” — three black students visit Africa, the land of their racial origin, and study their cultural origins to compare similarities and differences with the situation in America.
Thursday, February 11 — “Portrait In Black and White” — explores black attitudes toward the white community and white attitudes toward the black community and the misconceptions and prejudices of each.
Thursday, February 18 — “Body and Soul” Pt. I — studies the black man’s breakthrough into the world of sports, beginning with Jackie Robinson and continuing thru the present — and “Body and Soul” Pt. II — explains how the frustrations and depression heaped upon the black man in America gave rise to spirituals, revival music, jazz, the blues and soul music.
Thursday, February 25 — “The Heritage of Slavery” — follows the history of slavery in United States from 1619 to the Emancipation Proclamation and explains the social isolation of the freed slave and the descendent of the slave.
The films will be shown at 4:00 p.m. and average 30 to 60 minutes in length.
Originally published in The Paper, February 1971.
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Original source: SD_Times1971_02.pdf, printed page 2.
