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![Black Panther Party Chairman Fred Hampton Speaks at University of Chicago](images/thumbnails/MP3.jpg)
Collection: Fred Hampton Jr.
Taken from speech at University of Chicago, March 1969. Fred Hampton about the U.S. prison system and the fight for equal rights among people of color
![Martin Luther King Jr. "Something is happening in our world"](images/thumbnails/MP3.jpg)
Collection: Martin Luther King Jr.
Excerpt from "I've been to the Mountaintop" speech. This speech was given April 3, 1968, at Mason Temple, Church of God in Christ Headquarters, in Memphis, Tennessee shortly before Rev. King was assassinated.
![Paul Robeson Speaks at Marine Cooks & Stewards Union](images/thumbnails/MP3.jpg)
Collection: Paul Robeson recordings
Sample of Paul Robeson, the great African-American Singer and activist, in a rare recording, takes from a speech to a union gathering in San Francisco.
![Ruchell Magee](images/thumbnails/MP3.jpg)
Producers: Mark SchwartzCollection: Ruchell Magee
Ruchell Magee, sole survivor of the Marin Couthouse rebellion. he based his defense on the right to rebel, from the court decision on the Amistad slave ship, since made famous by the Spielberg film. Ruchell Magee remains in prison. This excerpt is from many prison related reports by Mark Schwartz.
![Growing up in the Black Nation](images/thumbnails/MP3.jpg)
Geronimo Ji Jaga reflects on how growing up in the Black Nation among enemy forces gave him a deep respect for defenders of the community.
![My History of Resistance](images/thumbnails/MP3.jpg)
Geronimo Ji Jaga Pratt recounts his personal history as a soldier in Vietnam, how he trained black communitiesin the US in self defense and was targeted by the FBI's COINTELPRO program.
![Geronimo Ji Jaga on Black Liberation](images/thumbnails/MP3.jpg)
Publisher: Freedom ArchivesCollection: Geronimo Pratt
Geronimo Ji Jaga explains the emergence of the Black Panther party as a small piece of the Black Liberation movement.
![Vietnam & Detroit Rebellion](images/thumbnails/MP3.jpg)
Geronimo Ji Jaga discusses his experience of returning from a year of combat in Vietnam only to be ordered to repress an riot in Detroit that largely consisted of Black and disenfranchised peoples.
![I'm in it to win!](images/thumbnails/MP3.jpg)
Publisher: Freedom ArchivesCollection: Geronimo Pratt
Geronimo Ji Jaga Pratt asserts his mission as a revolutionary activist.
![Black Liberation Part 1](images/thumbnails/MP3.jpg)
Publisher: Freedom ArchivesCollection: Black Liberation
Sweet Honey In The Rock - "Give Your Hands to Struggle"
James Baldwin - about his visit to a slave station near Dakar in Senegal. He expresses his pain as he tries to imagine how the slaves might have felt as they awaited the middle passage. How they were met with the gun and the bible when they arrived and how white America denies and even justifies this history
Sweet Honey In The Rock continued
Freedom medley - a mix of songs from the Civil Rights struggle of the 1960’s