The Presidency and Civil Rights: A Personal Memoir

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A CBS program produced by Bergen Community College with the title The Presidency and Civil Rights: A Personal Memoir. It consists of a white DVD (a) and a paper program (b). The white DVD (a) has the program title, date, and college logo printed on it and the program is part of a nationally televised series called The American Presidency: The Men and the Office and features former president of the NAACP Roy Wilkins chronologically discussing the consequences of various presidencies on the lives of African Americans. It opens with Wilkins describing the importance of the "American Dream" to African Americans and how some state-sanctioned institutions such as slavery and the Supreme Court have historically imposed racial inferiority on them. Through a combiniation of narration by Wilkins as well as archival imagery and audio, the program touches on the impact of numerous presidents and African American activists such as Presidents Herbert Hoover, Franklin D.

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