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Interview with Dhoruba Bin Wahad
Date: 10/5/1999Call Number: PM 169Format: Cass A & BProducers: Claude MarksCollection: Dhoruba Bin Wahad
General statements by Dhoruba Bin Wahad while he visited San Francisco in 1999.
Interview with Dharuba Bin Wahad
Date: 10/5/1999Call Number: PM 170AFormat: Cass AProducers: Claude MarksCollection: Dhoruba Bin Wahad
General statements by Dhoruba Bin Wahad while he visited San Francisco in 1999.
Discussion of the role of self defense in African and African American liberation.
Call Number: AFR 045Format: Cass A & BProgram: The Question of African ManhoodCollection: Robert F. Williams!
Discussion on the role of self defense in African and African American liberation. Robert Harris, Elombe Brath, and Vicki praise Robert Williams’ work and courage to free the black people. Elombe Brath speaks about the “May 8th Case” in New York in which 8 people were arrested for not cooperating with the state. Robert Harris speaks the struggle for African liberation and comments on how the conditions currently are the same as what Robert Williams faced in 1961. He concludes by calling the people to use self - defense to struggle against the state as Robert Williams did. Elombe Brath celebrates the memory of Robert Williams. He talks about the Williams’ sacrifices and work toward liberation, and the support he received from both blacks and whites. He points out that the people need to be educated to get anywhere in life. Lastly, Robert Harris speaks about African Nationalism and his admiration of Robert Williams because he rose to the challenge to free the black people and fight the media. He contemplates the role and importance of self defense in the struggle for liberation.
Kwame Ture on the history of black student revolutionary organizations
Date: 3/22/1994Call Number: AFR 051Format: Cass A & BProgram: Student Organizing from 1960 to 1994Collection: Kwame Ture
Kwame Ture speaks about the history of black student revolutionary protest organizations such as SNCC (Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee) and the BPP (Black Panther Party). He talks about the oppression of the capitalist system in disorganizing black organizations. He explains how Africans are used to having a hard life and constantly struggling for freedom. Struggle makes you stronger, and brings progress. Ture calls people to push black consciousness and to talk about both the oppressed and the oppressor, so as to avoid blaming the oppressed in the end. He also talks about how it is the capitalist system’s job to instill ideas of inferiority in African Americans, but he calls people to fight inferiority, and to increase their consciousness of African contributions to America. Ture talks about how Africa was the first continent to unite different countries under the OAU (Organization of African Unity). Lastly, he speaks about African’s high level of unity in action, but not in thought, because of the prevalence of ignorance of the value of organizing.
Kwame Ture on the knowledge of ones African culture as liberation.
Date: 3/22/1994Call Number: AFR 052Format: Cass A & BProgram: Student Organizing from 1960 to 1994Collection: Kwame Ture
Continuation of AFR 051
Kwame Ture speaks about racism as a question of power, and knowledge of culture as the liberation. He talks about how African culture is tolerant on many issues, but European culture is not. He states that you must first have an understanding of your own culture to have unity of thought. If you do not know your own culture, you take the culture of oppression.
Radical Tradition and a Legacy of Struggle - Malcolm X Conference (tape 1 of 2)
Date: 11/1/1990Call Number: KP 128Format: CassetteProducers: Manhattan Community CollegeProgram: Radical Tradition and a Legacy of StruggleCollection: Malcolm X
“Radical Tradition and a Legacy of Struggle” is a conference held at Manhattan Community College in NYC with more than 100 speakers led 24 sessions during November 1-4, 1990. The conference was meant to commemorate and honor Malcolm X and his contributions, as well as see what we have to learn from him. The speakers are interested in adapting and promoting their understanding of Malcolm X’s teachings.
On this tape the speakers include: John Henry Clarke, Betty Shabazz, and C. Eric Lincoln as well as Poet Laurette Amiri Baraka.
For more information please visit the website: http://www.brothermalcolm.net/sections/malcolm/
Radical Tradition and a Legacy of Struggle - Malcolm X Conference (tape 2 of 2)
Date: 11/1/1990Call Number: KP 129Format: CassetteProducers: Manhattan Community CollegeProgram: Radical Tradition and a Legacy of StruggleCollection: Malcolm X
This is the second tape from the conference “Radical Tradition and a Legacy of Struggle,” held at Manhattan Community College in NYC with more than 100 speakers led 24 sessions during November 1-4, 1990. The conference was meant to commemorate and honor Malcolm X and his contributions, as well as see what we have to learn from him. The speakers are interested in adapting and promoting their understanding of Malcolm X’s teachings.
On this tape the speakers include: Alex Haley and Dr. Margaret Burroughs.
For more information please visit the website: http://www.brothermalcolm.net/sections/malcolm/
Radical Tradition and a Legacy of Struggle - Malcolm X Conference - Black Liberation and Social Revolution: World
Day Three (tape 1 of 2)
Date: 11/3/1990Call Number: KP 130Format: CassetteProducers: Manhattan Community CollegeProgram: Radical Tradition and a Legacy of StruggleCollection: Malcolm X
“Radical Tradition and a Legacy of Struggle,” held at Manhattan Community College in NYC with more than 100 speakers led 24 sessions during November 1-4, 1990. The conference was meant to commemorate and honor Malcolm X and his contributions, as well as see what we have to learn from him. The speakers are interested in adapting and promoting their understanding of Malcolm X’s teachings.
This recording is from the third day. The focus of this panel is Black Liberation and Social Revolution: World. On this tape the speakers include: Gus John, Black Parents Movement, (London), Edwin Madunagu, Guardian Newspaper (Nigeria), Erroll McCleod, Oufields Workers Trade Union (Trinidad-Tobago), Abdul Rahman Muhammad Babu, author of African Socialism or A Socialist Africa
For more information please visit the website: http://www.brothermalcolm.net/sections/malcolm/
Radical Tradition and a Legacy of Struggle - Malcolm X Conference - Black Liberation and Social Revolution: World
Day Three (tape 2 of 2)
Date: 11/3/1990Call Number: KP 131Format: CassetteProducers: Manhattan Community CollegeProgram: Radical Tradition and a Legacy of StruggleCollection: Malcolm X
“Radical Tradition and a Legacy of Struggle,” held at Manhattan Community College in NYC with more than 100 speakers led 24 sessions during November 1-4, 1990. The conference was meant to commemorate and honor Malcolm X and his contributions, as well as see what we have to learn from him. The speakers are interested in adapting and promoting their understanding of Malcolm X’s teachings.
This recording is the second tape from the third day of the conference. The focus of this panel is Black Liberation and Social Revolution: World. On this tape the speakers include: Gus John, Black Parents Movement, (London), Edwin Madunagu, Guardian Newspaper (Nigeria), Erroll McCleod, Oufields Workers Trade Union (Trinidad-Tobago), Abdul Rahman Muhammad Babu, author of African Socialism or A Socialist Africa
For more information please visit the website: http://www.brothermalcolm.net/sections/malcolm/
Radical Tradition and a Legacy of Struggle - Malcolm X Conference - Black Liberation and Social Revolution: U.S.A.
Day Two (tape 1 of 2)
Date: 11/2/1990Call Number: KP 132Format: CassetteProducers: Manhattan Community CollegeProgram: Radical Tradition and a Legacy of StruggleCollection: Malcolm X
“Radical Tradition and a Legacy of Struggle,” held at Manhattan Community College in NYC with more than 100 speakers led 24 sessions during November 1-4, 1990. The conference was meant to commemorate and honor Malcolm X and his contributions, as well as see what we have to learn from him. The speakers are interested in adapting and promoting their understanding of Malcolm X’s teachings.
This recording is the first tape from the second day of the conference. The focus of this panel is Black Liberation and Social Revolution: World. On this tape the speakers include: Chokwe Lumumba, New African Peoples Organization, By Any Means Necessary Newspaper, Linda Burnham, Frontline Political Organization, Crossroards Magazine, Bill Fletcher, Freedom Road Organization, Forward Motion Journal, Nelson Peery, Communist Labor Party, Peoples Tribune Newspaper.
For more information please visit the website: http://www.brothermalcolm.net/sections/malcolm/
