Wayne Dabney video collection, 1981-1996, 2007 (bulk 1981-1984)
2 linear feet
Wayne Dabney is a photographer, video producer and political activist from Ann Arbor, Mich. A personal friend of writer and activist John Sinclair, Dabney was active in the White Panther Party and the Rainbow Coalition and resided with Sinclair in the Argus House commune in Ann Arbor. In the 1980s, he produced and hosted “Wayne’s Cultural Clinic,” a public access television program that consisted of musical performances and interviews with people involved in arts and politics, which aired on CATV in Ann Arbor.
This collection contains episodes and related episode notes, as well as a pilot for a different program entitled “People and Places.” It also contains select issues of “The Communicator,” the newspaper of UAW Local 735, of which Dabney was the editor in the mid-1990s.