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All Power to the People All Power to the People
Date: 1/1/1997Call Number: V 014Format: VHSProducers: 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
Historical Evolution of the Black Power Movement - Kwame Toure Historical Evolution of the Black Power Movement - Kwame Toure
Date: 2/8/1989Call Number: KP 047Format: Cass A & BCollection: Black Power/Black Nation
Historical Evolution of the Black Power Movement - Kwame Toure
Discussion among black women about white liberals, radicalism and solidarity. Discussion among black women about white liberals, radicalism and solidarity.
Call Number: KP 069Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsCollection: Black Power/Black Nation
Black Women discussing many issues that face them including white liberals and fear, and the media and its outlets.
Defining Black Power - Part One Defining Black Power - Part One
Call Number: KP 108AFormat: Cass AProducers: KPFA ArchivesCollection: Black Power/Black Nation
Black voices: Defining Black Power: a sampler of famous speeches. Rosa Parks 6:41 (1955) James Baldwin 16:33 (5/17/1963) Bayard Rustin, Malcolm X 21:32 (Debate in early 1960s)
Defining Black Power- Part Two Defining Black Power- Part Two
Call Number: KP 108BFormat: Cass BProducers: KPFA ArchivesCollection: Black Power/Black Nation
Black voices: Defining Black Power: a sampler of famous speeches. Fannie Lou Hamer 23:00 (1965) Angela Davis 21:38 (1/30/1970)
Defining Black Power - Part Three Defining Black Power - Part Three
Call Number: KP 109AFormat: Cass AProducers: KPFA ArchivesCollection: Black Power/Black Nation
Black voices: Defining Black Power: a sampler of famous speeches. Elijah Muhammad 9:28 (early 1960s) Malcolm X 12:01 (1/7/1965) Stokely Carmichael (Kwame Toure) 9:37 (8/25/1968)
Defining Black Power - Part Four Defining Black Power - Part Four
Call Number: KP 109BFormat: Cass BProducers: KPFA ArchivesCollection: Black Power/Black Nation
Black voices: Defining Black Power: a sampler of famous speeches. Martin Luther King 22:08 (1/14/1962) Huey Newton 10:51 (9/4/1970)
Defining Black Power - Part Five Defining Black Power - Part Five
Call Number: KP 110AFormat: Cass AProducers: KPFA ArchivesCollection: Black Power/Black Nation
Black voices: Defining Black Power: a sampler of famous speeches. Eldridge Cleaver 12:29 (4/28/1969) Maulana Karenga 11:31 (4/28/1969) H Rap Brown (Jamil al Amin) 15:25 (1968)
Defining Black Power - Part Six Defining Black Power - Part Six
Call Number: KP 110BFormat: Cass BProducers: KPFA ArchivesCollection: Black Power/Black Nation
Black voices: Defining Black Power: a sampler of famous speeches. Leroi Jones (Amiri Baraka) 12:49 (8/6/1964) John Hope Franklin 16:00 (4/3/1969)
All Power to the People - Part 1 DV All Power to the People - Part 1 DV
Date: 1/1/1997Call Number: V 315Format: 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