FTV 166 Plain Speaking: A Counter History of the United States, Part One
This week on From the Vault we revisit selections from a ten-part series called Plain Speaking: A Counter History of the United States that was produced in 1976 by Pacifica radio station KPFA in Berkeley. Produced for the country’s bicentennial celebration as an alternative to traditional American history taught in public schools, the series traces the nation’s history form the arrival of Christopher Columbus, through the various social movements of our first 200 years, giving voice to the many unheralded people who fought for equality and justice and who helped facilitate change so that all could prosper.
In Part One, we’ll hear Warren Van Orden reading from Hans Koning’s Columbus, His Enterprise, “I Discovered America in 1949″ by Serafin Malay Syquia, Langston Hughes’ Black Like Me ready by Ruby Dee, and Leo Huberman’s We the People ready by Warren Van Orden.
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