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Art as a Political Weapon Round Table Discussion, 1963 May 14
File — Box: Mixed nav_8, Reel: NS070203_NSAC_01_01
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Companion event for “Weimar — Nuremberg — Bonn,” an exhibition of World War Two-era German posters organized in honor of the University in Exile’s 30th Anniversary and as part of the New School Art Center’s “Art As A Political Weapon” exhibition series. The event was organized by the New School Art Center’s executive director Paul Mocsanyi, and moderated by Dr. Howard B. White, Dean of the Graduate Faculty at the New School for Social Research. Participants in the panel included...
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1963 May 14
Artist's Reality Round Table Discussion, 1964 Oct 28
File — Box: Mixed nav_8, Reel: NS070203_NSAC_03_01
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Event connected with sculpture exhibition of same name hosted by the New School Art Center. This summary only addresses written material associated with the round table, as the recording is largely inaudible. On the panel are Peter Agostini, Robert Mallary, Phillip Pavis, George Segal, George Sugarman; Paul Mocsanyi moderates. Based on written notes, Mocsanyi's opening remarks address consciousness, the creative process, and reference Meister Eckhart and Carl Jung. He also thanks the library...
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1964 Oct 28
The Museum in Crisis Panel Discussion, 1972 Oct 2
File — Box: Mixed nav_8, Reel: NS070203_NSAC_04_01-02
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Paul Mocsanyi introduces himself as the director of the New School Art Center and the moderator of this symposium. Mocsanyi comments on the considerable turnout and expresses appreciation for the New York Times’ advance coverage of the event, then proceeds to introduce the panel. Mocsanyi asks Heckscher the title question: “what do we mean when we say the museums are in crisis?” Heckscher begins by acknowledging that finance — specifically increased operating...
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1972 Oct 2
Unsettled Issues in the Cities by Charles Abrams, 1964 Mar 26
File — Box: Mixed nav_8, Reel: NS070204_ARC_Abrams_01-02
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Charles Abrams describes cities as “this century’s frontier,” and the “the surviving outpost of the deprived.” Abrams offers a global perspective on urban poverty, describing conditions in Manila, Ankara, and Hong Kong, as well the United States. He discusses the impact of the Great Migration on U.S. cities, as well as white flight. Abrams emphasizes the relationship between racism, income inequality, and urban housing challenges. He also details the impact of redlining, restrictive...
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1964 Mar 26
How Realistic Is the Goal of Desegregated Education in the North? by Dan W. Dodson, 1964 Feb 20
File — Box: Mixed nav_8, Reel: NS070201_ARC_Dodson_01-02
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Dan W. Dodson is introduced; he was, at the time, professor of sociology at New York University and director of the NYU Center for Human Relations Studies. Dodson describes his work community organizing for housing reform and against segregation (both legislated and de facto). He specifically discusses a number of court cases, including Brown v. Board of Education, Bulah v. Gebhart, and Plessy v. Ferguson. He also expresses the view that obstructions to desegregation are in fact obstructions...
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1964 Feb 20
An Examination of the Techniques in Action: What the Individual Can Do by Algernon D. Black, 1964 Apr 2
File — Box: Mixed nav_8, Reel: NS070201_ARC_Black_01-02
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Algernon Black prefaces his lecture with the intent that it be casual and informal. Black discusses race as a social construct. He mentions Franz Boas’s The Mind of Primitive Man, and discusses patterns of immigration, and emphasizes African-Americans as an exception to the pattern of assimilation, drawing the connection between ghettoization of African-Americans and the fact that the vast majority were forcibly emigrated to the United States through the...
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1964 Apr 2
The Summer of Our Discontent by Martin Luther King, Jr. with Question and Answer Session, 1964 Feb 6
File — Box: Mixed nav_8, Reel: NS070201_ARC_King_QA_020664
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This speech was delivered by Martin Luther King, Jr. at The New School on February 6, 1964. It was the opening address of the American Race Crisis lecture series.In his lecture, Dr. King, Jr. addresses the question, "Why did things happen in the civil rights movement as they happened in '63?" He identifies a range of causes for the start of what he calls "America's second revolution--the Negro revolution," including the slow pace...
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1964 Feb 6
The Urban Dilemma by Milton A. Galamison, 1964 Mar 5
File — Box: Mixed nav_8, Reel: NS070201_ARC_Galamison_01-02
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Milton A. Galamison emphasizes a need for a philosophical underpinning for advocacy and activism surrounding education reform, specifically as it pertains to desegregation and integration. He discusses the recently discredited (and legally overturned) “separate but equal” philosophy, and the long-term damages and traumas affected and exacerbated by segregation. Galamison is careful to note the relationship between segregated education and issues of fair housing, disparities in hiring and...
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1964 Mar 5
The Negro Revolt as Part of the International Non-White Uprising by Louis E. Lomax, 1964 Apr 9
File — Box: Mixed nav_8, Reel: NS070201_ARC_Lomax_01-02
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Louis E. Lomax opens with a description and examples of “ignorance in high places”: systemic and inculcated racism in the federal government that has negatively impacted foreign and domestic policy. He describes the very high stakes faced by organizers and advocates for civil rights. He discusses numerous contemporary political figures, including Nikita Khrushchev, Malcolm X, Governor George Wallace, President Harry S. Truman, Fidel Castro, Mao Tse-Tung, Kemala Nehru, Jomo Kenyatta, Martin...
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1964 Apr 9
The Puerto Ricans: An Integrated Community Faces a Segregated Society by Joseph Monserrat, 1964 Feb 13
File — Box: Mixed nav_8, Reel: NS070201_ARC_Monserrat_01-02
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Joseph Monserrat discusses the Puerto Rican experience as a colony and as principality; he also emphasizes the Puerto Rican community’s integrated nature. Monserrat explains that segregation has never been legally sanctioned in Puerto Rican society, and relates it to contemporary difficulties faced by the Puerto Rican community in segregated American society. Monserrat relates this struggle to the American race crisis, which he calls an American race revolution, and to struggles in the...
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1964 Feb 13