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Highlights of Nelson Mandela`s Visit to the United States

http://abj.matrix.msu.edu/videofull.php/id=198-733-213/

Publisher:  Detroit Public Television
Resource Type:  Film/Video

This special episode of the "Detroit Black Journal" is a 53-minute video report of Nelson Mandela's trip to the United States in June 1990. There is a special focus on Mandela’s trip to Detroit, including Nelson Mandela and Winnie Mandela being greeted by leaders of the International Union, United Automobile, Aerospace and Agricultural Implement Workers of America (UAW). There is also footage from Mandela’s visit to New York and Boston. The show is hosted by Trudy Gallant. She interviews organizers of Mandela’s trip to Detroit, including Margaret Baylor, president of the Detroit chapter of TransAfrica, and Paul Hubbard, former president of New Detroit Inc. Gallant also talks with two prominent Detroit journalists: Susan Watson, a columnist with the Detroit Free Press, and Emery King, an anchor for WDIV-TV, who reported on Mandela’s tour. This discussion intersperses their reflections with video clips of Mandela's appearances. United States
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