Jesse Jackson Interview by Arthur Kretchmer
Jesse Jackson dropped out of the University of Illinois, where he only studied for one year, to return to his home in North Carolina in 1960. He then attended Agriculture and Technical College of North Carolina. Located in Greensboro, students from this school had just demonstrated in the first sit-in. After graduating in 1964, Jackson attended seminary school back in Chicago. In 1966, he met Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. who then asked Jackson to head SCLC’s Northern economic plans. Jackson started running Operation Breadbasket, based in Chicago, in 1967, a group that was responsible for boycotting businesses in the ghetto who would not hire black workers or sell black products. Jackson was asked about non-violence and his views on the Black Panther Party’s beliefs, riots, reparations and welfare, “Afro” style and blackness, and Dr. King in this 1969 interview.
Playboy Magazine
Special Collections, J. Murrey Atkins Library, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
1969-11
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AP2 .P69 v.16 no.3 Sept-Dec 1969
"Slack Power" Advertisement by h.i.s
This advertisement by the clothing company h.i.s shows a muscular African-American modeling a pair of pants with the caption “Slack Power.” This is a play on the phrase “Black Power,” popularized in the late 1960’s.
Playboy Magazine
Special Collections, J. Murrey Atkins Library, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
1969-10
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"The Decent Society: Race Relations" by John V. Lindsay
"The Decent Society" was a collection of eleven essays on different aspects of American life. The pieces were written five years after President Johnson’s 1964 promise of the Great Society. Each tackles a different problem that was still plaguing the nation such as “Equality & Opportunity” or “Science & Technology.” The New York City Mayor John V. Lindsay wrote “Race Relations.” Using examples from his home in New York, Lindsay points out that poverty, ghettos, and unemployment help to keep all minorities from advancing and that the government should take a more active approach for dealing with these problems.
Playboy Magazine
Special Collections, J. Murrey Atkins Library, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
1969-01
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AP2 .P69 v.16 no.1 Jan-Apr 1969
Waiting Rooms Cartoon by Sidney Harris
Sidney Harris is a cartoonist who has drawn for the <em>New Yorker</em> in addition to <em>Playboy</em>. Here, one man seems to have just gotten off the train. The other man who met him there has noticed that the visitor has seen the train station waiting rooms are segregated. The man says, “Yes, we feel our little old town has clearly moved forward with the times.” This seems to be because the room is labeled “BLACK” instead of the previous “NEGRO” or “COLORED.” The visitor looks horrified.
Playboy Magazine
Special Collections, J. Murrey Atkins Library, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
1969-09
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"A Testament of Hope" by Dr. King
In this essay, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. talks of the problems that African-Americans faced such as education, poverty, housing, and the government creation and enforcement of laws. The byline seems to explain it best: “In his final published statement, the fallen civil rights leader points the way out of America’s racial turmoil into the promised land of equality.”
Playboy Magazine
Special Collections, J. Murrey Atkins Library, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
1969-01
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AP2 .P69 v.16 no.1 Jan-Apr 1969
Sex in Academe
An article for playboys about what different colleges have to offer in terms of women and a good time.
Playboy Magazine
Special Collections, J. Murrey Atkins Library, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
1969-09
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AP2 .P69 v.16 no.3 Sept-Dec 1969