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Robert F Williams at Lewis Business College - Part 1 Robert F Williams at Lewis Business College - Part 1
Year: 1996Call Number: RFW 060Format: Mini DVCollection: Robert F. Williams!
We have no legal rights to reproduce or distribute this item! Appearance of RFW at Lewis Business College, Detroit sponsored by NAPO (New African People's Organization). Part 1
All Power To The People Part 1 All Power To The People Part 1
Date: 1/1/1996Call Number: LT 021Format: Mini DVProducers: Lee Lew LeeCollection: Black Power/Black Nation
Opening with a montage of four hundred years of race injustice in America, this powerful documentary provides the historical context for the establishment of the 60's civil rights movement. Rare clips of Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, Fred Hampton and other activists transport one back to those tumultuous times. Organized by Bobby Seale and Huey P. Newton, the Black Panther Party embodied every major element of the civil rights movement which preceded it and inspired the black, brown, yellow, Native American and women's power movements which followed The party struck fear in the hearts of the "establishment" which viewed it as a terrorist group. Interviews with former US Attorney General Ramsey Clark, CIA officer Philip Agee, and FBI agents Wes Swearingen and Bill Turner shockingly detail a "secret domestic war" of assassination, imprisonment and torture as the weapons of repression. Yet, the documentary is not a paean to the Panthers, for while it praises their early courage and moral idealism. it exposes their collapse due to megalomania, corruption, drugs, and narcissism
Williams "Song in Exile" Celebrated Williams "Song in Exile" Celebrated
Author: Herb BoydPublisher: Daily ChallengeDate: 11/1996Volume Number: NovemberFormat: ArticleCollection: Robert F. Williams!
A Legacy of Resistance: Tributes to Robert and Mabel Williams A Legacy of Resistance: Tributes to Robert and Mabel Williams
Publisher: Robert Williams Tribute CommitteeDate: 11/1/1996Volume Number: 1-NovFormat: ProgramCollection: Robert F. Williams!
Tributes to Robert and Mabel from revolutionaries from all over the world.
A Tribue to Brother Rob Williams A Tribue to Brother Rob Williams
Publisher: Patrice Lumumba CoalitionDate: 11/1/1996Volume Number: 1-NovFormat: FlyerCollection: Robert F. Williams!
Event flyer for a tribute to Brother Rob Williams
Robert F. Williams: A Hero in the Struggle of the African American people Robert F. Williams: A Hero in the Struggle of the African American people
Publisher: People's TribuneDate: 11/1996Volume Number: NovemberFormat: ArticleCollection: Robert F. Williams!
Eulogy by General Baker
Nation Time: The Voice of the New Afrikan Liberation Front Nation Time: The Voice of the New Afrikan Liberation Front
Publisher: New Afrikan Liberation FrontYear: 1996Volume Number: SummerFormat: PeriodicalCollection: New Afrika
Cover Story: NALF on the move in 96
Black Panther, Long Exiled, Sums Up Black Panther, Long Exiled, Sums Up
Publisher: Havana JournalDate: 4/9/1996Volume Number: April 9Format: PeriodicalCollection: Black Panther Party Contemporary Articles and Newsletters
Bonnie Kerness Interviews Sundiata Acoli Bonnie Kerness Interviews Sundiata Acoli
Date: 4/27/1996Call Number: PM 414AFormat: Cass AProducers: Bonnie KernessCollection: Sundiata Acoli
Interview conducted at Allenwood Federal Prison surrounding the trial on control units.
Bonnie Kerness Interviews Sundiata Acoli Bonnie Kerness Interviews Sundiata Acoli
Date: 4/27/1996Call Number: CD 806Format: CDProducers: Bonnie KernessCollection: Sundiata Acoli
Interview conducted at Allenwood Federal Prison surrounding the trial on control units. Sundiata Acoli on explanations on Control Units and their use and psychological effect on political prisoners, prisoners of war and people's struggle. Phillip Zimbardo narrates this audio portion of the documentary "Quiet Rage: The Documentary" which covers a 6 day experiment on the psychological effects of prisoner and guard roles and relationships.