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The Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions Audio Archive Program 262: Experiment in Self-Help Robert Bailey and Lou Smith, organizers of Operation Bootstrap, a successful volunteer self-help movement in the black area of Los Angeles, discuss with the Center's Hallock B. Hoffman the problems they encountered from teachers and students alike when setting up their program to train African-Americans for skilled and semi-skilled professions. Operation Bootstrap I. Jan. 1967. [CSDI program number 262; UCSB tape numbers A7857/R7, A7858/R7] Listen to part 1: (21:55) Listen to part 2: (20:56) Download: Experiment in Self-Help, Part 1 (8.8 MB) Download: Experiment in Self-Help, Part 2 (8.4 MB) Program Topics Democracy and Freedom Dissent Education First Amendment Rights/Freedom of the Press Government and Politics Hutchins [Robert Maynard] and the History of CSDI Immigration International Issues Law and Order The Media Peace and War Race and Ethnicity Religion Science and Technology Social and Economic Issues CSDI Audio Archive Information The Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions (CSDI) was founded by Robert Maynard Hutchins and was based in Santa Barbara, California, from 1959 to 1987. During that time it brought together many of the most capable and distinguished minds of the times to discuss vital issues facing American society of the day. Thanks to donors Neal Linson, Ceil Pulitzer, and Stanley Sheinbaum, a project has begun to digitize and make accessible on the web some of the most important conference proceedings, talks, and dialogues recorded by CSDI. CSDI Audio Archive Homepage Help with listening to the audio files, credits and copyright information Page author: David Seubert. Last modified: 07/31/07 11:26:40 Direct questions or comments about this page to the author or to the Web Administrator. This is an official University of California, Santa Barbara Library web page.