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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 that his responsibilities as a government administrator are somehow in conflict with his responsibilities as an African American -- an attitude he encounters in both blacks and whites. Sept. 23, 1963. [CSDI program number 68; UCSB tape number A7590/R7]

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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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