[2] For the festival, held at Mount Morris Park, Lawrence secured additional sponsorship from Maxwell House, and performers included Nina Simone, B.
The event, taking place over several weekends, was filmed by Tulchin, and also involved the participation of community activists and civic leaders including Jesse Jackson.
Tulchin used five portable video cameras to record over 40 hours of footage of the event, and reportedly also designed the stage set.
[3] The "Tony Lawrence Love Festival", held in Newark, New Jersey in October 1969, was also filmed by Tulchin and was broadcast by NBC the following month.
[1] Tulchin's video recordings of the 1969 Harlem Cultural Festival were eventually used by Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson as the basis for the successful 2021 documentary film Summer of Soul.