Almanac, Episode 512
- Date
1992-11-19
- Main contributor
KUHT-TV (Television station)
- Summary
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Patricia Gras discusses the difficulties of growing up young, Black, and male in America with Dr. Lee P. Brown, Professor at Texas Southern University and Houston's former Chief of Police. Includes report on the Fifth Ward Enrichment Program, which is comprised of an all-male staff who work directly with young men in schools in the community. Second segment focuses on a proposal by local judges to send small-time drug users to residential treatment programs for a year rather than to jail. Gras interviews Utopia Lastrap, a regional coordinator for the Texan's War on Drugs, and Steve McAllister, executive director of the Palmer Drug Abuse Program. Includes report on the Palmer Drug Abuse Program, a free non-sectarian treatment program in Harris County.
- Contributors
Davis, Sue; Torres Burd, Patricia; Gras, Patricia
- Genre
television programs
- Subjects
Brown, Lee P.; Lastrap, Utopia; McAllister, Steve; Drug control; Drug abuse; Public television
- Collection
KUHT Film and Video
- Unit
University of Houston Libraries Special Collections
- Language
English
- Rights Statement
- In Copyright
- Physical Description
00:26:50
- Notes
This item is from an archival collection and may contain content which is no longer politically or socially appropriate.
Digitization and access for this item is made possible by a grant from the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services and Texas State Library and Archives Commission (2017).
- Other Identifiers
Other: ID 1997-006a, AV Shelving; Preservation Location: ark:/84475/pm081937926
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Access Restrictions
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