John A. Williams Acceptance Speech - The King Alfred Plan
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The 1st Phillis Wheatley Awards Ceremony, hosted by QBR the Black Book Review took place in 2002. Significant authors including, John A. Williams, were honored. Williams was introduced by another important writer, Robert Fleming. Williams' acceptance speech was a retrospective of his career, the in context of the Black struggle for civil rights. He also gets into the infamous King Alfred Plan.
More about Robert Fleming: https://aalbc.com/authors/author.php?author_name=Robert+Fleming
This video is a “highlighted excerpt” from the entire awards program recorded by C-SPAN2 BookTV. View the entire awards ceremony at:
https://www.c-span.org/video/?171391-1/phillis-wheatly-awards
The 1st Phillis Wheatley Awards Ceremony, hosted by QBR the Black Book Review took place in 2002. Significant authors including, John A. Williams, were honored. Williams was introduced by another important writer, Robert Fleming. Williams' acceptance speech was a retrospective of his career, the in context of the Black struggle for civil rights. He also gets into the infamous King Alfred Plan.
More about Robert Fleming: https://aalbc.com/authors/author.php?author_name=Robert+Fleming
This video is a “highlighted excerpt” from the entire awards program recorded by C-SPAN2 BookTV. View the entire awards ceremony at:
https://www.c-span.org/video/?171391-1/phillis-wheatly-awards
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