Picturing Black History

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War on Poverty

Claude Brown, author of Manchild in the Promised Land, testifies before the Senate subcommittee on Executive Reorganization on the conditions of black American ghettos.

Manchild in the Senate Hearing

Claude Brown testifies about the urban crisis in 1960s America.

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