Televising Black Politics in the Black Power Era: Black Journal and Soul!

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    Bibliography

    • Acham, Christine. Revolution Televised: Prime Time and the Struggle for Black Power. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2004.

    • Bodroghkozy, Aniko. Equal Time: Television and the Civil Rights Movement. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2012.

    • Carson, Clayborne, et al., eds. The Eyes on the Prize: Civil Rights Reader: Documents, Speeches, and Firsthand Accounts from the Black Freedom Struggle, 1954-1990. New York: Viking, 1991.

    • Curtin, Michael. Redeeming the Wasteland: Television Documentary and Cold War Politics. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1995.

    • Donovan, Robert, and Ray Scherer. Unsilent Revolution: Television News and American Public Life, 1948-1991. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1992.

    • Griffis, Noelle. “‘This Film Is a Rebellion!’: Filmmaker, Actor, Black Journal Producer, and Political Activist William Greaves (1926-2014).” Black Camera 6, no. 2 (Spring 2015): 7–16.

    • Heitner, Devorah. Black Power TV. Durham: Duke University Press, 2013.

    • Heitner, Devorah. “Training Black Mediamakers after Kerner: The Black Journal Workshop.” In Reinventing Race, Reinventing Racism, edited by John J. Betancur and Cedric Herring, 199-208. Leiden: Koninklijke Brill, 2013.

    • Rhodes, Jane. "The 'Electronic Stimulus for a Black Revolution': Black Journal and the 1960s Public Television." Black Renaissance Noire 14, no. 2 (Fall 2014): 136-51.

    • United States. National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders. Report. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1967. https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015000225410;view=1up;seq=225

    • Wald, Gayle. It’s Been Beautiful: Soul! and Black Power Television. Durham: Duke University Press, 2015.

    • WNET. “List of Black-Produced TV Shows Nationwide, from 1968- On,” February 27, 2009; https://www.thirteen.org/blog-post/list-of-black-produced-tv-shows-nationwide-from-1968-on/

    Notes to Televising Black Politics in the Black Power Era

    1 United States. National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders, Report (Washington, DC: Government Printing Office), 1; https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015000225410&view=1up&seq=23.

    2 Aniko Bodroghkozy, Equal Time: Television and the Civil Rights Movement (Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2012); Robert J. Donovan and Ray Scherer, Unsilent Revolution: Television News and American Public Life, 1948-1991 (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1992), 17; Mary Dudziak, Cold War Civil Rights: Race and the Image of American Democracy (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000).

    3 National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders, Report.

    4 National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders, Report, 203.

    5 National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders, Report, 211.

    6 Jane Rhodes, “The ‘Electronic Stimulus for a Black Revolution’: Black Journal and the 1960s Public Television," Black Renaissance Noire 14, no. 2 (Fall 2014): 137.

    Notes to Black Journal

    7 Christine Acham, Revolution Televised: Prime Time and the Struggle for Black Power (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2004), 29.

    8 Rhodes, “Black Journal,” 137.

    9 Rhodes, “Black Journal,” 138.

    10 Devorah Heitner, Black Power TV (Durham: Duke University Press, 2013), 87.

    11 “NET’s ‘Black Journal’ on View Wed.,” New York Amsterdam News, June 8, 1968, 22, https://search.proquest.com/docview/226589470?accountid=12084.

    12 Heitner, Black Power TV, 96-98.

    13 Noelle Griffis, “‘This Film Is a Rebellion!’: Filmmaker, Actor, Black Journal Producer, and Political Activist William Greaves (1926-2014),” Black Camera 6, no. 2 (Spring 2015): 10.

    14 Acham, Revolution Televised, 41.

    15 Rhodes, “Black Journal,” 140.

    16 Acham, Revolution Televised, 41.

    17 Heitner “Training Black Mediamakers after Kerner: The Black Journal Workshop,” in Reinventing Race, Reinventing Racism, ed. John J. Betancur and Cedric Herring (Leiden: Koninklijke Brill, 2013), 206.

    18 Heitner, “The Black Journal Workshop,” 201.

    19 Rhodes, “Black Journal,” 144.

    20 Griffis, “William Greaves,” 9.

    21 Heitner, Black Power TV, 20.

    22 Heitner, Black Power TV, 85.

    23 Heitner, Black Power TV, 115.

    24 Rhodes, “Black Journal,” 147.

    25 Heitner, Black Power TV, 113.

    26 Acham, Revolution Televised, 45.

    27 Clayborne Carson, et al., eds. The Eyes on the Prize: Civil Rights Reader: Documents, Speeches, and Firsthand Accounts from the Black Freedom Struggle, 1954-1990 (New York: Viking, 1991), 501.

    28 Heitner, Black Power TV, 112.

    29 Claude Andrew Clegg, An Original Man: The Life and Times of Elijah Muhammad (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1997), 125; Peniel E. Joseph, Waiting ’Til the Midnight Hour: A Narrative History of Black Power in America (New York: Henry Holt, 2006), 24.

    30 Acham, Revolution Televised, 50; “Blacks Challenge Stations,” New York Amsterdam News, May 9, 1970, 21, https://search.proquest.com/docview/226549342?accountid=12084.

    31 Heitner, Black Power TV, 121.

    32 Rhodes, “Black Journal,” 146.

    33 Heitner, Black Power TV, 121.

    34 Acham, Revolution Televised, 50.

    35 Heitner, Black Power TV, 120.

    Notes to Soul!

    36 Gayle Wald, It’s Been Beautiful: Soul! and Black Power Television (Durham: Duke University Press, 2015), 182.

    37 Wald, Soul!, 182.

    38 Heitner, Black Power TV, 7.

    39 Wald, Soul!, 153.

    40 Heitner, Black Power TV, 144.

    41 Heitner, Black Power TV, 131.

    42 Heitner, Black Power TV, 151.

    43 Wald, Soul!, 185.

    44 Wald, 182.

    Black Journal hosts William Greaves and Lou House.

    Soul! producer and host Ellis Haizlip interviewing Kathleen Cleaver

    An hour-long public-affairs special dealing with the meaning of the newly-passed Civil Rights Bill in the aftermath of national mourning for Dr. Martin Luther King.

    Bloody Sunday - Alabama police attack Selma-to-Montgomery Marchers, 1965. Photograph. Retrieved from the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

    Courtesy of the Federal Bureau of Investigation

    DeMarsico, Dick, photographer. Gracie Mansion, Rev. Martin Luther King press conference. New York, NY, July 30, 1964. Photograph. Retrieved from the Library of Congress.

    Courtesy of the Library of Congress

    Three buildings burn on Avalon Blvd. and a surplus store burns at right as a looting, burning mob ruled the Watts section of Los Angeles. Los Angeles, California, August 1965. Photograph. Retrieved from the Library of Congress.

    Courtesy of the Library of Congress

    Trikosko, Marion S., photographer. [President Lyndon Baines Johnson with some members of the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders (Kerner Commission) in the Cabinet Room of the White House, Washington, D.C.]. Washington, D.C., July 29, 1967. Photograph. Retrieved from the Library of Congress.

    Courtesy of the Library of Congress
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    Exhibit Sections

    Black Journal
    Soul!
    Resource:

    Curators

    Christine Acham

    Chair, Professor, Academy for Creative Media, University of Hawai'i at Mānoa

    Ashley Young

    Assistant Professor, School of Visual Art and Design, University of South Carolina (2022-present); Ph.D., Cinema and Media Studies, University of Southern California (2021)

    Additional Resources

    Black Journal Special Collection, AAPB
    Broadcasting While Black, Thirteen
    Black Power, National Archives
    The Black Power Movement, Digital Public Library of America
    Basic Black, WGBH
    "Black Journal, A Personal Look Backward," St. Clair Bourne, International Documentary Association