This episode, the first of three featuring interviews with older African American men who had lived in Detroit for decades, focuses on the Northern migration of African American families.
Smith’s connections with the community as a social worker allowed him to record hours of interviews with people about their lives and their opinions on contemporary issues. This episode features interviews with a group of young hippies as an example…
This is the seventh episode of Seeds of Discontent, the 1968 radio documentary series created by Hartford Smith Jr. and distributed by Wayne State University's WDET in Detroit.
This entry includes a report, written primarily by Hartford Smith Jr., on juvenile delinquency and crime in Detroit in the late 1960s. Also includes related correspondence .
In the final episode of the radio documentary series, Hartford Smith Jr. summarizes the findings of the interviews conducted over the past twenty-five episodes. He describes themes that came up related to the sources of social and political…