The Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions Audio Archive Race and Ethnicity Program 26 : South Africa's Racial Problems The Center's Harvey Wheeler talks with South African journalist Edgar Hill about racial problems in that nation, suggesting that South... Program 66: Who Will Blow the Trumpet? Civil rights activist Grace Lee Boggs explains some of the resentment African Americans feel toward whites who participate in the... Program 67: Black and White in America Sociologist Philip Rieff argues that almost all sociological analysis of African Americans is a construction of white liberals who fail... Program 68: The Negro as an American Robert C. Weaver, head of the Federal Housing and Home Finance Agency, speaks on the difficulty of combating the attitude... Program 69: A Walk on the West Side The Center's Joseph P. Lyford reports on his study of the plight of the African American community in New York... Program 77: A Negro Looks at the Fourteenth Amendment NAACP attorney Loren Miller discusses Supreme Court cases involving reapportionment, school segregation, and sit-in demonstrations, in an attempt to... Program 79: The Garner Case - I Harry Kalven, Jr., of the University of Chicago Law School, presides over a staff meeting at the Center focused on... Program 80 : The Garner Case - II Harry Kalven, Jr. provides an analysis of the four different opinions written by the Supreme Court justices in Garner v... Program 81: The Garner Case - III Harry Kalven, Jr. explores the notion that sit-in demonstrations are protected under the First Amendment as a form of... Program 82: Affirmative Discrimination - I: Schools and Housing Edwin E. Dunaway, a former Arkansas Supreme Court Justice, leads a Center discussion on the question of whether African Americans... Program 83: Affirmative Discrimination - II: Jobs Former Arkansas Supreme Court Justice Edwin E. Dunaway returns to lead a second Center discussion, focusing on the issue of... Program 84: Quotas for Negroes: Insult or Compensation? Harry Kalven, Jr., of the University of Chicago Law School, clashes with the Center's W. H. Ferry in this heated... Program 96: Racial Equality, Criminal Proceedings, and the Courts Judge Thurgood Marshall discusses the role of the federal courts in helping to realize democracy's twin goals of liberty under... Program 128: The Negro Revolution in 1965 Civil rights activist Bayard Rustin discusses the goals and tactics of the Black protest movement in the wake of the... Program 130: Beauty for Ashes A series of excerpted speeches tells the story of the Committee of Concern, an inter-faith and inter-racial organization... Program 132: Gains in Mississippi Daniel Biettel, of the Advisory Committee to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, outlines the new gains he sees for... Program 255: La Mula No Nació Arisca... Excerpts from a Center conference that make the case that the deprivation and exploitation suffered by the Mexican-American community... Program 256 : Who Is the Enemy? Excerpts from a Center conference that focus on identifying the primary 'enemy' of the Mexican-American community, whether it is... Program 257: The Cactus Curtain Labor organizer Ernesto Galarza, author of Merchants of Labor: The Mexican Bracero Story, outlines a program to correct the deep... 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... Program 263 : Self-Concepts -- Myth and Mirror A delegation from Operation Bootstrap, the volunteer self-help movement based in the black area of Los Angeles, discusses with... Program 264 : The U.S. Constitution or Self-Determination for Negroes? Excerpts of a discussion on whether the Constitution needs to be revised to better protect minority groups, or whether African... Program 279: A Strategy of Disruption Richard Cloward, of Columbia University, examines ways in which the poor -- especially the minority, ghettoized poor -- can find a degree... Program 309: The Fire This Time: What Happened in Watts? Trevor Thomas presents a documentary of the five-day uprising in the Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles during the summer... Program 435: I Shall Die But That Is All I Shall Do for Death Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., James Farmer, and Bishop C. Edward Crowther each deliver a brief speech at the Center's... Program 457: Creative Non-Violence Agricultural workers' union organizer Cesar Chavez speaks informally with the Center staff about his views on matters ranging from the... Program 458: A Proposal for a Black College W. H. Ferry submits a controversial proposal for a two-year college for African-American students, designed to make up... Program 462: You Must Go Home Again Norris Hart, a young black teacher who moved from a small town in Texas to Los Angeles and then decided... Program 463: Rural Development: Rich Land for Poor Slater King, a black activist and real estate broker, presents his idea to create a land trust, privately organized as... Program 747: Ethnic Diversity, Individual Rights, and Family Policy In planning for a proposed national family policy, Irving M. Levine and Joseph Giordano, both of the American Jewish Committee... Program 760: Illegal Immigration and National Policy The Center's Otis L. Graham, Jr. examines the extent and character of the problem of illegal immigration, and the response... Program 761: Immigration: Retrospection and Reflection A discussion of immigration into the United States, particularly from Mexico, spanning from the early part of the twentieth century... Program 762: The Impact of Illegal Immigration In this panel discussion, two sides of the issue of illegal immigration are discussed; the perceived urgency of the problem... Program 763: The Demographic Implications of Illegal Immigration Conference participants debate the controversial idea that the United States should tie aid to immigrant-supplying nations to provisions that... Program 764: The Illegal Alien and Amnesty A discussion of the Carter administration's proposed legislation for dealing with the illegal immigration problem through a call for limited... Program 765: The Case for Restricted Immigration Garrett Hardin, of the University of California Santa Barbara, argues for restricted immigration on the grounds that it is imperative... Program 766: The Case for a Liberal Immigration Policy Jorge A. Bustamante, of Colegio de Mexico in Mexico City, contends that it is misleading to discuss immigration in terms... Program 767: The Immigration Debate: The Idealists vs. the Realists John Higham, of Johns Hopkins University, explains how current discussion about immigration policy merely recapitulates the same dynamic that has... Program 768: Illegal Immigration: The Ethical Questions Otis L. Graham, Jr. summarizes the ethical concerns underlying the widely differing viewpoints of the conference participants, and raises some... Program 769: Illegal Immigration and Development Aid Ronald M. Green, of Dartmouth College, argues that the United States must not make economic aid to countries within close... Program 770: Illegal Immigration: The View from Mexico and Canada Marcos Manuel Suarez, head of the Mexican Department of Labor, and Ivan M. Timonin, of the Canadian Employment and Immigration... 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. 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