Day 5: Communications: The Media, The Music

Tapes 1 to 2B

The session begins as Henry Hampton briefs the day's participants on the presentations and highlights of the process thus far.

CBS News Senior Executive Producer Robert (Shad) Northshield  describes the impact of the Civil Rights Movement on the evolution of TV newsgathering.  Producers were looking for "something dramatic and graphic" and found it in the movement and Vietnam. "The Civil Rights Movement was coincidently good for us," says Northshield.

In the Q&A that follows, he assesses the "significance" of events covered during this period.

Julian Bond talks about his work as communications director for SNCC.  He describes some of the preparation and training for students during Freedom Summer.  He also talks about using photographs and audio tape to get the message to the news media.

Both men talk about working with journalists and photographers like Richard Valeriani, Tom Brokaw, Frank McGee, Tom Wicker, Reese Cleghorn, Claude Sitton and Lawrence Pierce.

Tapes 2B & 3

In the second session, folksingers Odetta (Odetta Holmes) and Guy Carawan of the Highlander Center talk about their involvement in the civil rights movement and the influences that gave birth to the songs of that era.  Julian Bond also joins this discussion.  He notes that the jailings led to a blending of styles.

They also sing all or part of the following songs:
"Kumbaya"
"I'm Gonna Sit at the Welcome Table"
"They Love Segregation Like a Hound Dog Loves a Bone"
"This Little Light of Mine"
"Eyes on the Prize"
"We Will Never Turn Back"
"Wallace, You Never Can Jail Us All"
"Oginga Odinga"
"I Want My Freedom"
"Do What the Spirit Say Do"
"We Shall Not Be Moved"
"Set On Freedom"