Segment from Fighting Words

“The American Dream has been achieved at the expense of the American Negro.”

In 1965, more than 1,000 undergraduates crammed into the Cambridge Union debating society to watch American writers James Baldwin and William F. Buckley debate. Brian talks to Kennesaw State University historian Seneca Vaught about how Baldwin bested Buckley.

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