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Date:: 1983-11-22/1983-12-14
Main contributors:: Howard, Roy Wilson, 1883-1964, Howard, Jack R. (Jack Rohe), 1910-, Gray, Richard
Summary:: The Roy Howard Archive Oral History Collection. Interviewer Richard Gray.

Date:: 1983-11-22/1983-12-14
Main contributors:: Howard, Roy Wilson, 1883-1964, Howard, Jack R. (Jack Rohe), 1910-, Gray, Richard
Summary:: The Roy Howard Archive Oral History Collection. Interviewer Richard Gray.

Date:: 1975
Main contributors:: Mert Koplin, Charles Grinker
Summary:: Utilizes excerpts from speeches and interviews of many leading black activists to exemplify the various components of "Black Power." Ranges from discussion of black separatism and violence to non-violent integration. Interviews Adam Clayton Powell, Stokely Carmichael, Muhammad Ali, Floyd McKissick, Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, Jr., Whitney Young, H. Rap Brown, Dick Gregory, and Eldridge Cleaver.

Date:: 1945
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Summary:: Tells the complex story of India's social and political problems immediately after World War II. Shows the overcrowded conditions, how war with Japan brought to a head centuries of strife among various dissident groups in India's conglomerate population, and how tradition has placed oriental luxury side by side with squalor. Enumerates the social and industrial benefits, as well as the abuses, that came with British domination.

Date:: 0000
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Summary:: Reviews the civil strife between religious groups during the first days of Free India. Stresses the fact that with the assassination of Gandhi much of the civil war stopped, and now Nehru is attempting to weld the country into a democratic state. Shows present-day India's industry, people, religion, and agriculture.

Date:: 1946
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Summary:: Shows the actual training and activities of Air Transport Command personnel with routines of briefing, radio communications, and other precautionary measures during World War II.

Date:: 1947
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Summary:: Reviews the important wartime changes and also points out their lasting effect upon the entire nation, as manufacturers planned to keep industry in the West after World War II. Offers glimpses of such Pacific Coast industries as shipbuilding, aircraft production, lumber, oil, steel, and synthetic rubber.

Date:: 1948
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Summary:: Discusses recent drug discoveries such as sulfa, penicillin, and streptomycin; increased opportunities for medical students from all parts of the world to study in this country such problems as the Rh blood factor and malnutrition; and progress in the control of heart disease, cancer, and rheumatic fever up to 1948.

Date:: 1949
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Summary:: Traces the position of the Presidency from its constitutional beginnings to the present status of the office. Explains the effect of the development of the implied powers, and discusses the unique position of the Presidency today. Shows the men who have held the office, and the events that shaped their conduct of it.

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