Original title
Assignment America
Released
-
Origin country
US
Genre
Documentary
Production companies
Thirteen
Status
Ended
Number of seasons
1
Number of episodes
4
A weekly series with alternating interviewer: Harvard psycho-historian Doris Kerns; poet, playwright and author Maya Angelou; syndicated columnist George Will and populist chronicler Studs Terkel. Each program featured one of the four in a 30-minute film or videotape report on someone who contributed to the ideas and issues of America.
Studs Terkel interviewed 36 year old Sadlowski, director of the largest district of the United Steelworkers of America Union and the nation’s newest spokesman for union democracy.
The man often considered the best living science-fiction writer was interviewed by Maya Angelou with talk centering on abstract concepts of the relationship between science, religion and magic.
Maya Angelou visited controversial black radical and former professor Angela Davis at her home, and discussed her childhood, her time in prison and the role of the black woman in the women’s movement.
Novelist, essayist and outspoken black rights advocate James Baldwin talked about his career with Maya Angelou.
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