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Discussion on media, Citizens Interracial Committee continued, 1969

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Special training for news media personnel, continued discussion, 1969
Citizens Interracial Committee (CIC) Community Dialogues, 1969
1969-03-14
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Citizens Interracial Committee
Moderator: Waymon, Carrol
One of CIC's primary activities was to hold biweekly meetings called "community dialogues" to discuss broad issues such as racism, police sensitivity, education, and employment discrimination within the city of San Diego. The number of attendees at any given meeting was usually quite high--perhaps as many as 30 or more persons--representing an extremely wide variety of backgrounds, including city officials, educators, administrators, religious leaders, law enforcement, journalists, and minority community spokespersons.

This meeting was a continuation of a discussion about the media, and how minority groups felt they were either misrepresented or not represented in the various news sources in San Diego. Several instances were presented of news stories that cast a negative image of a minority person or persons, and also of a minority person or group not being given a chance to offer rebuttal to something printed or aired about them. It was agreed by those present that some sort of ongoing meeting of minority groups and media should be established to improve communications between them and raise awareness and sensitivity to minority concerns regarding the media. However, there were notable absences at this meeting, and no resolution was reached.

The meetings were moderated by CIC Executive Director Carroll Waymon, and his voice is often the first one heard in the audio recordings of the meetings. The meeting minutes consist mainly of names matched to marker numbers from the original tape.

Citizens Interracial Committee; CIC; Carrol Waymon; Chuck Johnson; Dave Newton; Ray Blair; Jim Oxley; George Stevens; Peter Kaye; Anderson Berry III; Celia Rodriguez; Gracia Molina de Pick; John Wood; Ray Wilson; Brad Warner; Racial tensions; Racism; Meetings
California - San Diego
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English
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02:44:49
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CIC_REEL021_001; fs-w-063; WAYMON-2011; cam-sc-bus-001
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