Word: duberman
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Dates: during 1964-1964
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...MARTIN DUBERMAN: IN WHITE AMERICA (Columbia). A sharply etched historical sketch of the U.S. Negro from slave days, drawn from letters, speeches and reminiscences. Narrated by six actors, it has been running off Broadway for nearly a year, and it makes compelling if painful listening. Thomas Jefferson describes the differences between blacks and whites as he sees them. During the Civil War, a South Carolina white woman nervously describes her slaves "going about in their black masks," sensing freedom in the air. John Brown, Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. DuBois, Father Divine, Walter White are all heard from, but the most...