The Marcantonio- Du Bois television program

Item Information

Title:
The Marcantonio- Du Bois television program
Description:
This is an additional draft of mums312-b203-i043, notable for its notations about portions of the broadcast that had been censored. In this broadcast, the American Labor Party pays tribute to Franklin Delano Roosevelt on the eighth anniversary of his death. Du Bois and former ALP Congressman Vito Marcantonio touch on the discrepancy between Roosevelt's ideal of the Freedom from Fear and the widespread paranoia of Cold War America as spearheaded by the House Un-American Activities Committee. They describe Roosevelt's contributions to civil rights and the labor movement. They finish by declaring that the best tribute that the American people could make to the memory of Roosevelt would be to end the Korean War.
Creator:
Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt), 1868-1963
Date:
April 3, 1953
Format:
Manuscripts
Genre:
Transcripts
Drafts (documents)
Television scripts
Location:
Special Collections and University Archives, University of Massachusetts Amherst Libraries
Box 203 (shelf locator)
Collection (local):
W. E. B. Du Bois Papers
Series:
Series 2. Speeches
Subjects:
Korean War, 1950-1953
American Labor Party
Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945
Extent:
8 p.
Link to Item:
http://credo.library.umass.edu/view/full/mums312-b203-i044
Terms of Use:
All rights for this document are held by the David Graham Du Bois Trust. Requests to publish, redistribute, or replicate this material should be addressed to Special Collections and University Archives, University of Massachusetts Amherst Libraries.
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Place of origin:
New York (N.Y.)
Language:
English
Identifier:
mums312-b203-i044