End to experimental school project in Boston

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Title:
End to experimental school project in Boston
Description:
In this clop James Rowe and Carmen Fields open the program. Rowe talks about the decision by the Board of Education to cancel funding to several experimental schools, thus ending the six-year experiment in Boston. Those affected are on Blue Hill Avenue in the Grove Hill area of Roxbury, and on Talbot Avenue in Dorchester. Overall the program, in a news-broadcast format, reviews the events of April, 1975 with anchors James Rowe and Carmen Fields, news reporter "at large" Leah Fletcher, in-studio interviewer Russell Tillman, arts reviewer Tanya Hart, special reporter June Cross, and commentator Dighton Spooner. Program features a special reports on State Senator Bill Owens's press conference in April (in which he discussed capital punishment legislation pending in the Senate), the "American Woman" festival held at Jordan Marsh department store in Boston, decisions made by Housing Court Judge Paul Garrity (on renovating the housing projects under the Boston Housing Authority), Julian Bond's recent traveling of the political circuit in Massachusetts to "drum up" support for a presidential campaign, the Alliance for Economic Justice's meeting to protest the governor's cutback in welfare benefits, an interview with Winston Kendall of the Roxbury Defenders (about the upcoming conference organized by the National Conference on Black Lawyers called "Resist to Exist"), the picketing of the president's office at Boston University by students (over the current dean and his poor management of the Black Talent Program), the United States Bicentennial events on Patriots' Day at John Elliot Square, and an interview with jazz musician Ronnie Gill. Produced by Marita Rivero. Directed by Conrad White.
Producer:
Barrow-Murray, Barbara
Producer:
Rivero, Marita
Director:
White, Conrad
Contributor:
Loerzel, David
Host:
Rowe, James
Host:
Fields, Carmen
Contributor:
Lawson, Rick
Researcher:
Spooner, Dighton
Contributor:
Farrier, Stephen
Contributor:
Cogell, Lloyd
Reporter:
Fletcher, Leah
Contributor:
Shipley, Jack
Reporter:
Tillman, Russell
Reporter:
Hart, Tanya
Contributor:
Jones, Vickie
Contributor:
Cross, June
Date:
May 1, 1975
Format:
Film/Video
Location:
WGBH
Collection (local):
WGBH Open Vault
Series:
Say Brother
Subjects:
American Woman Festival (1975 : Boston, Mass.)
Owens, Bill
Kendall, Winston
National Conference on Black Lawyers (1975)
Segregation
School management and organization
Gill, Ronnie
Roxbury Defenders
African Americans--Education
Alliance for Economic Justice (Boston, Mass.)
Burke, Yvonne
Civil rights
Bond, Julian, 1940-
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Publisher:
WGBH Educational Foundation
Identifier:
V_8E7491E770F448A3B9EEB0801AECF076