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Letters written in support of SOUL!, 1969-73

Over the course of its four-year run, SOUL! was threatened with cancellation multiple times. Here’s a sample of letters of support written to the producers of SOUL! from viewers across the racial and economic spectrum. The letters show what SOUL! meant to New Yorkers, from schoolchildren to prisoners–and everyone in between. Images courtesy the executive producer of SOUL!, Christopher Lukas.

The SOUL! program generated thousands of letters of support. Others we haven’t scanned: a petition from Con-Ed workers of NY with hundreds of names, and a letter from Italian Television asking to broadcast the show. (and many others….)

one response
NICOLEHUGHES -- June 19th, 2009 at 3:10 pm

every thursday while i was cooking inside of my mother’s house in goldsboro,north carloina, i was pretending that i was waeching soul and saw jimmy briscoe w/ little beavers singing sugar brown and the voice of syd mccoy saying the show’s title’s narration. it feels like im home back in new york and really missed all the black talent behind the scences. we lost a sister who later made amen so specail,anna marie horsford(thelma frye)was a producer for the show as well and a born again christain i see how it feels that is hard to find a better role for women not since esther rolle for good times abd jeffersons and cicley tyson as miss jane pitman. thank you for the memories. please,show soul again in north cack-a-lack abd abroad. thank you brothers and sisters.

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