McCarthy, Harry Educational Broadcasting CorporationNET Division Harris, Roy Bond, Julian Lewis, John Sherrod, Charles Blackburn, Ben Compton, J. D Smith, James W LaRue, Leon McGown, John Cheek, Bessie Abrams, Grady Ingram, Edith Folds, Milton Watters, Pat

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Episode Number: 81 hour piece, produced by NET Division, Educational Broadcasting Corporation and initially distributed by NET in 1970. Black civil rights activist John Lewis, one of the founders of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), says he decided years ago that freedom for the black man was not in the North, as many have thought, but in the South. Appearing on NETs documentary about the new South, Lewis says, I saw hundreds of black people standing on the streets in Harlem, talking about what they were going to do whitey. It was very sad to see people so frustrated . I made the decision then that the real struggle, the real movement was in the South black people in the South are involved in meaningful change. Pat Watters, reporter and interviewer in the program, using Georgia as a representative sample of Southern life, garners attitudes and opinions about the changing conditions from a cross section of inhabitants, both black and white. Watters, former city editor of the Atlanta Journal, is author of two books about the South Climbing Jacobs Ladder and The South and the Nation. Ranging the spectrum of opinion on racial relations, Watters first interviews a black woman from Baker County. Theyre doing it in a different way, she says. They arent just getting up and beating up blacks. Theyve found a new way of going about it. However, in other areas the blacks are more optimistic, Watters reports. The gradual enfranchisement of blacks (the number of...

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