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Democracy Now!: The Best of Enemies: a story of friendship between a prominent member in the KKK and a Black Civil Rights activist
Date: 7/4/1996Call Number: KP 123Producers: Pacifica Radio ArchiveProgram: Democracy Now!Collection: General materials
A very interesting and inspiring interview between two friends brought together by their similarities after many years of highlighting their differences. CP Ellis was the Exalted Cyclops of the Durham, NC, Ku Klux Klan when he met Ann Atwater, a militant black community organizer. They were elected to organize the public school system through the AFL-CIO. While there was much hostility to their interactions, they soon learned that they shared many of the same problems as working/lower class citizens struggling in an impoverished school district. Their friendship grew from this connection and led Ellis to leave the KKK. He talks about the hardships he faced as a result of this.
Also interviewed is Osha Gray Davidson author of The Best of Enemies: Race and Redemption in the New South a book about the two’s friendship. This book was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize for History in 1997.
Bob Dylan press conference June 1964
Press interview of Bob Dylan
Ruthie Gorton Sings
Call Number: KP 297Collection: General materials
Nine topical songs written and sung by movement singer Ruthie Gorton. Ranges from women's movement to Ireland United and Free, Free Palestine Now, and Children of Babylon.
Tricia Nixon Interview
Call Number: KP 335Collection: General materials
Interview of Tricia Nixon by Judy Tolson in San Francisco in which she supports her father's war policies.
Lincoln Bergman KMPX Audition Tape
Audition for news position at KMPX, includes mix of political news and music of the time in classic collage style.
Press Conference on Folsom Prison Strike
Press conference by representatives chosen by striking prisoners, with 31 demands related to prison conditions and human rights. Opened by attorney Charles Garry, includes comments from National Lawyer's Guild, Black Berets, Black Panther Party, and attorney Alex Hoffmann.
People's Bicentennial Celebration - Part 2
Bicentennial demonstration: Speakers on the state of gay rights and workers rights. Poetry by Carlos Puebla.
Songs of Life from a Dying British Empire
Date: 1/1/1982Call Number: Vin 024Producers: Paredon Records, Leon Rosselson, Roy BaileyCollection: General materials
This album is a musical representation of the political and social conditions of Britain in the 1970s. Protest songs chronicle the economic inequalities between the upper and working classes imposed by a British Empire facing obsolescence. Rosselson and Bailey call upon the traditions of the British folk revival to express sentiments of anti-imperialism. Includes extensive liner notes.
Promises of the Storm
Date: 1/1/1983Call Number: Vin 028Producers: Paredon Records, Marcel KhalifeCollection: General materials
Marcel Khalife sings about the struggles of people in Lebanon and Palestine. Influenced by traditional Arabic Music, Khalife draws connections between the two freedom struggles, creating a new music of resistance. Includes liner notes and Paredon Records catalogue.
Algo se quema alla afuera! (Something Is Burning Out There!)
Date: 1/1/1975Call Number: Vin 029Producers: Paredon Records, Estrella ArtauCollection: General materials
Songs that call for the independence of Puerto Rico. Sung in Spanish, these protest songs emphasize the injustices in Puerto Rico brought on by capitalism and colonialism. Representation of nonviolence through music.