Stokely Carmichael on SNCC & the Watts Uprising

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KTVU News footage from 1965/6 featuring a press conference with Stokely Carmichael (Kwame Touré) of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). He discusses the responsibilities of white workers to organize themselves and also reflects on the Watts social uprising in Los Angeles (August 1965). At one point he contextualizes his statements by claiming that: "White Americans have always tried to exploit Black people." Opening graphic designed by Carrie Hawks.

Originally aired on
KTVU
Date aired
1965/6
Recording medium
16mm co-magentic sound film
2:42
Rights for this video belong to
Cox Enterprises Inc/KTVU
Type of material
archival newsfilm
Identifier
KTVU 27-9
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3226

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