00:00:22 Voice begins to describe the events in the fall of 1983 at Clark College under the direction of Dr. Lillian Webb, Chairman of the Department of Religion and Philosophy.
00:00:39 Dr. Raymond Boisvert talks about the reason for the occasion and gives purpose of the C. Eric Lincoln lecture series.
00:02:35 Dr. Elias Blake president of Clark College talks about C. Eric Lincoln and Alex Haley as light bearers and introduces Alex Haley.
00:03:53 Alex Haley talks about C. Eric Lincoln and his book interests.
00:06:18 Dr. Larry Jones (Dean of Howard School of Divinity) offers a poem by Dr. C. Eric Lincoln, This Road Since Freedom.
00:09:19 Reverend Moses Anderson (representing Pope John Paul II and Catholic Church) talks about meaning of Black scholarship in the church.
00:10:33 Clark College bestows upon Dr. C. Eric Lincoln the Doctorate of Humane letters.
00:10:44 Dr. C. Eric Lincoln begins to give first ever lecture of C. E. Lincoln lecture series from the Topic Human Values in Inhuman Systems.
00:11:35 Talks about believing people are who their values proclaim them to be. Values constitute the contextual framework out of which critical decisions are made and volitional behavior determined.
00:12:50 Talks about a way to test the importance of human values is to review the broad and significant changes that have occurred in human society since World War II.
00:13:12 Talks about the increasing difficulty of people to attain a strong sense of security and to maintain confidence in their perception of what is right or even if right or wrong makes any difference as a consequence of changes and new and differing perceptions of what values are worth pursuing.
00:13:35 Talks about mental effects of the struggle of persons trying to sort out and make sense of the competing notions and experiences which seem to crowd in upon people.
00:13:54 Talks about human values particularly those based on religious understanding functions as stations of security and how they are critical in meaning, understanding and direction in human life.
00:14:26 Talks about some things must change some things must persist through change or change itself becomes the only value of significance.
00:14:56 Talks about four fundamental values to every civilized society (life, dignity, creativity, responsibility). Other values are derivative of these four values.
00:21:33 Talks about the reason for the decline of great civilizations is the initiation of internal assaults on their values.
00:22:20 Talks about Puritan notions of righteous empire.
00:29:22 Choir sings.
00:30:25 Audio ends.
