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(CIVIL RIGHTS.) A Verbatim Transcript of a Forum: The Black Revolution and the White Backlash. iii, 90 mimeograph pages. 4to, 11 x 8 1/2 inches, partly-printed cover sheet by Martin C. Johnson Reporting Service, bound with brass fasteners, minor wear; toning to outer leaves, otherwise minimal wear to contents. New York, 15 June 1964
This forum was held by the Association of Artists for Freedom. Among the 9 panelists was the playwright Lorraine Hansberry, three years after the film adaptation of her "Raisin in the Sun," and just a few months before her death from cancer. The film's producer David Susskind, and its Broadway stars Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee, were also on the panel, as well as authors LeRoi Jones (Amiri Baraka), John Killens, and Paule Marshall; and editors Charles Silberman and James Wechsler.
Hansberry's comments appear on pages 33-38, 63-65, 69-70, and 81. She discusses her father's anti-segregation lawsuit Hansberry v. Lee, and reflects on the civil rights movement: "It isn't as if we got up today and say, you know, what can we do to irritate America, you know? It's because that since 1619, Negroes have tried every method of communication, of transformation of their situation from petition to the vote, everything. . . . And now the charge of impatience is simply unbearable. . . . We have to find some way with these dialogues to show and to encourage the white liberal to stop being a liberal and become an American radical." On page 70, she asserts: "The whole idea of debating whether or not Negroes should defend themselves is an insult. If anybody comes and does ill in your home and your community, obviously you try your best to kill them."
With--a promotional photograph of Lorraine Hansberry with Sidney Poitier and the director and producers of "Raisin in the Sun" by Friedman-Abeles. 9 1/2 x 7 1/2 inches, captions and stamps on verso. [New York], June 1959.
