The WNET Group Archives

Take This Hammer

02/08/1964 | 44m 9s  | Video has closed captioning.

Author and activist James Baldwin meets with members of San Francisco's African American community in 1963. Escorted by Youth For Service's executive director, Orville Luster, Baldwin is intent on discovering "the real situation of Negroes in the city, as opposed to the image San Francisco would like to present." KQED produced this segment for NET, the predecessor of WNET.

Aired: 02/08/64

Rating: NR

Problems Playing Video? | Closed Captioning

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