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![The Radical Underground in America](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Date: 1/29/1975Call Number: KP 008Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Earl OfariCollection: Black Liberation
This documentary produced by Earl Ofari contains a wide array of voices about the importance of the underground in revolutionary struggle; from FBI director Clarence Kelly and Attorney General William Saxbe to Kathleen Cleaver, Herman Bell and Mark Allen. There is music by Smokey Robinson.
![Paul Robeson sings](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Paul Robeson, sings “Joe Hill”.
![Sweet Honey in the Rock 20th Anniversary concert](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Concert at Howard University campus, 1993.
Sweet Honey in the Rock is a Grammy Award winning African-American female a cappella ensemble, founded by Bernice Johnson Reagon. The group’s music is rooted in the tradition of spirituals, hymns, and gospel, as well as jazz and blues. Their repertoire includes many songs promoting political and social justice. The concert is preceded by a ritual drumming ceremony tribute accompanied by a performance by members of a martial arts academy, followed by a brief reading of an excerpt from the anthology _We Who Believe in Freedom_, the first book put out by the group. Commentators review the group’s history and philosophy. Tape covers only first half of concert (ten songs, including “Spiritual”, “Ballad of the Broken Word”, “No Mirrors”, “In This Land”, “Patchwork Quilt” etc),
then cuts out abruptly.
![Maya Angelou-- Collage of music and poetry](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Date: 2/16/1982Call Number: KP 100Format: CassetteProgram: Freedom is a Constant StruggleCollection: Black Arts
Four Maya Angelou poems from a benefit reading in 1972 for Angela Davis, interspersed with jazz and blues music for a radio program called “Freedom is a Constant Struggle”. Poems: Harlem Hopscotch, Time-Square Shoe-Shine Composition, Harriet Tubman (?) (by Margaret Walker), For My People (by Margaret Walker).
![Interview with Bernice Reagon](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Founding member of political and spiritual a cappella vocal ensembles, Sweet Honey in the Rock, Bernice Reagon discusses the role of culture, the church, and music in the black community; focusing on how these elements contribute to the "self-definition and self-concept" of the community and their role in developing and maintaining resistance to oppression. She also discusses her experiences as a musician and her artistic approaches to singing and song writing.
Most of interview is fine. Terrible hum comes in at 15 32.
![El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz Malcolm X: A Session of Malcolm X](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Date: 3/13/2004Call Number: CD 285Format: CDProducers: Lecroy RhyanesProgram: Soul SessionCollection: Malcolm X
Speeches of Malcolm X mixed with soul music. CD 2 of 2.
![Radio Free Dixie](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Date: 5/28/1965Call Number: RFW 014Format: CDProgram: Radio Free DixieCollection: Robert F. Williams!
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Blues, social conditions 1890-1940s, made in UK, artists anonymous, Blues in the Mississippi Night proudly dedicated to the gallant freedom fighters resolutely struggling against US racism and imperialism
![Radio Free Dixie](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Date: 5/28/1965Call Number: RFW 015Format: CDProgram: Radio Free DixieCollection: Robert F. Williams!
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Blues in the Mississippi Night, part 1 - all material on this CD is the same as the material on RFW 014
![Radio Free Dixie](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Date: 5/28/1965Call Number: RFW 016Format: CDProgram: Radio Free DixieCollection: Robert F. Williams!
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Blues in the Mississippi Night, part 2 - chain gang songs, stories from former chain gang workers, some material repeated on RFW 014
![Protest Songs](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
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Protest Songs