Middle Class Black American Views on Integration, 1960's. Archive film 97977

Black middle class opinions from California, U.S.A. 1960's. Man starts by saying the view 'one hundred years beyond the Civil War, the basic frame of reference, the basic value system of American culture says if you're black, get back; if you're white, you're right; if you're brown, stick around'. There is laughter amongst the others. Woman called Dolores says she is neither black, nor white and man says she is in the middle - more laughter. She continues and says 'this is where the white man is wrong about this integration thing. He seems to be of the opinion that we want to inter-marry, that we want to socialise, such as we're doing here now.' Second woman contends 'they think we want to socialise with them; they think we want to sit with them; they think we want to go to school with their children'. Dolores says 'we do want to go to school with them'. Different opinions on amount of interaction between blacks and whites that is desirable. Discussion on the 'bedroom argument that the extremists, the lunatic fringe use to try to end all discussion'. Dolores says it's too late for the bedroom argument and to gentle laughter it is pointed out to Dolores that her light complexion is enough to end the bedroom argument right now. Dolores says that it is the Southern white man who needs to change his views. Man says 'integration will free the white man and will make him respect, the 13th, 14th and 15th Amendments and the Bill of Rights and will make him become an American finally following his own Constitution which he has never followed properly