Record

Ref NoMS 4000/6/1/58/19/C
TitleCD Rom listening copy
LevelItem
Date12 July 1968
DescriptionDick Days talks to Dilip Hiro.

Track 1: Dick Days talks about his early life and coming to New York. He says that most black people worked in foundries and factories, 3.08 mins
Track 2: He talks about black consciousness and black people going to college after the Second World War. He talks about money in the black community. He talks about Stokeley Carmichael and others saying that black people will not fight the Russians, 5.52 mins
Track 3: He talks about the differences between black people in North and South America and access to money and power. He talks about unions, 5.13 mins
Track 4: They continue to discuss unions in the black community and jobs for black people, 1.50 mins
Track 5: Silence, 1.36 mins
Track 6: The beginning of this track is silence. He talks about work and unions in the black community and his own experiences as a union organizer and as administrator of a pensions fund. Dilip Hiro asks about his experiences as an organizer - he talks about working in a car dealership, 7.10 mins
Track 7: He says that he has always lived in Harlem and that Harlem used to be a white middle-class community, 1.48 mins
Track 8: Dilip Hiro asks about changes in Harlem in the last ten years. He says that he has earned respect. He says that people have become conscious of the realities and talks about the political power of the church. He talks about the rules of society which cut out black people and the United Nations, 4.46 mins
Track 9: Dilip Hiro asks about the physical conditions in Harlem. He talks about government money for regeneration in the ghettos and white people making money out of regeneration and displacing the people. He talks about the increase in the number of black judges, 2.44 mins

Total: 34.10 mins

Dubber's reference number: PLA KF565D0666280
Extent1
FormatCd-rom
Access StatusOpen
LanguageEnglish
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