It's Nation Time

Duration: 21

Year Published: 1970

Creator: WNET/13

Format: 16mm

Color: B&W

Sound: sound

Description: Black Journal’s second report on the Congress of African People held in Atlanta on Labor Day weekend features interviews with some of the major participants. They include: Imamu Amiri Baraka (playwright LeRoi Jones) of the Committee for a Unified Newark; Hayward Henry Jr. chairman of the congress; Jesse Jackson, head of Operation Breadbasket; Richard Hatcher, mayor of Gary, Indiana; Minister Louis Farrakhan, spokesman for the Nation of Islam; Dr. John Henrik Clarke, professor of Black Studies, Hunter College; and Julian Bond, Georgia legislator. There are also performances by jazz artist Pharaoh Sanders and the Last Poets.

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