United and Westerly Anti Racism Coalition to show Baldwin vs Buckley debate

WESTERLY — "Is the American Dream at the expense of the American Negro?" This was the topic on Feb. 18, 1965 when an overflow crowd packed the Cambridge Union in Cambridge, England, to bear witness to a historic televised debate between James Baldwin, the leading literary voice of the civil rights movement, and William F. Buckley Jr., a fierce critic of the movement and America’s most influential conservative intellectual.