Nationtime: Gary

Overview

A report on the National Black Political Convention held in Gary, Indiana, in 1972, a historic event that gathered Black voices from across the political spectrum, among them Jesse Jackson, Dick Gregory, Coretta Scott King, Richard Hatcher, Amiri Baraka, Charles Diggs, and H. Carl McCall.

Cast

Sidney Poitier

Self - Narrator

Amiri Baraka

Self

Coretta Scott King

Self

Dick Gregory

Self

Jesse Jackson

Self

Bobby Seale

Self

Harry Belafonte

Self

Isaac Hayes

Self

Richard Roundtree

Self

N/A

Betty Shabazz

Self

N/A

Charles Diggs

Self

N/A

Walter Fauntroy

Self