A selection of programs and series throughout the decades that were broadcast on Minnesota Public Radio.
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June 28, 1976 - Neal St. Anthony prepared excerpts and interviews from the Transportation of Nuclear Materials conference sponsored by the Atomic Industrial Forum held recently in Bloomington, Minnesota. About conference: Nuclear generated electricity has moved out of the experimental stage. Government projections show nuclear plants will provide up to 45 percent of the nation's electricity by the year 2000. Accompanying that growth is a parallel increase in shipments of the radioactive fuels and wastes which power the plants. The transportation of nuclear materials is a cause of concern among antinuclear groups. Proponents say it is a well-regulated system which poses no threat to society. Recently, a group of nuclear industrialists and government regulatory officials came to the Twin Cities to discuss nuclear transportation.
June 29, 1976 - MPR’s Debbie Gare interviews W. Harry Davis, Minneapolis school board member and local civil rights activist, about desegregation of Minneapolis public schools. He believes it is the responsibility of districts in the country to figure out how to overcome segregated schools.
July 4, 1976 - This special MPR program takes a look at various communities throughout Minnesota and shows how they celebrate the 4th of July, especially during the bicentennial year. Program includes interviews, performances, and commentary.
July 7, 1976 - Ayn Rand speaking at the Ford Hall Forum at Boston's Northeastern University. Topic of address is on the United States Bicentennial and politics.
July 9, 1976 - Joan Halifax-Grof, a medical anthropologist specializing in psychiatry and religion, speaks on transformation and human consciousness, transformation and initiation and visionary states, and transformation and the experience of death.
July 16, 1976 - MPR’s Dennis Hamilton reports on speech made by author and historian Hiram Drache at Crookston Rural America Conference. Hamilton also presents a short interview with Drache after the completed remarks.
July 23, 1976 - MPR’s Kate Williams talks with Black residents in St. Paul’s Selby-Dale community about their views of the Jimmy Carter-Walter Mondale presiditional ticket.
July 30, 1976 - Stokely Carmichael, a black activist in the 1960's, speaks to a group in Minneapolis about where the Black Power Movement should be going. Carmichael highlights his views against American capitalism.
August 5, 1976 - An address by educator-farmer-writer Hiram Drache on the family farm and the future of American farming before a conference on rural America, held in Crookston, Minnesota. The speech is titled "Agriculture in the Year 2000."
August 7, 1976 - On this regional public affairs program, a discussion on trends regarding the health of the city of Minneapolis. After a downturn of 1950s-1960s due to suburban growth, the 1970’s show positive changes, including increase in middle- and upper-income families moving back into the city, and investment in neighborhoods and older buildings.