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Prison sounds
Prison sounds. Difficult to hear what they’re actually saying.
Doc Holiday
Doc Holiday. Tape is long summary of information related to plane crash.
Paul Robeson program
Biography of Robeson, with Robeson songs; audio clips from Robeson’s films; commentary on Robeson’s attitude about film roles for African Americans; excerpt from 1959 interview with British journalist, where Robeson speaks about the dignity of the role of Othello and his views on the relation of “Negro” music to the traditional folk music of many nations.
Same as CD272
Paul Robeson: Freedomways Tribute, on WBAI
Date: 6/17/1965Call Number: PR 052Format: 1/4 3 3/4 ipsProducers: WBAIProgram: FreedomwaysCollection: Paul Robeson recordings
Paul Robeson: Freedomways Tribute, on WBAI Radio, contains event held on June 17, 1965, with Joanne Grant, emcee, describing Robeson’s life and reading from his speeches and interviews. Major excerpts from the 1963 Freedomways Welcome Home Tribute, when Robeson returned home after five years of traveling around the world. The 1963 event was his last public appearance. Includes the speeches of James Baldwin, Ruby Dee, Ossie Davis, John Lewis (Director of SNCC, Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee) and Robert Nemeroff, widower of Lorraine Hansberry, reading her tribute to Robeson. Also includes recording of Robeson reciting the last speech of Othello and a recording of him singing Old Man River.
Same as CD 287, Track 1
(Robeson’s 25-minute speech at the 1963 event is on CD 287, Track 3.)
Tribute to Paul Robeson WBAI Reel 2
Date: 1/1/1968Call Number: PR 066Format: 1/4 3 3/4 ipsProducers: WBAICollection: Paul Robeson recordings
Ossie Davis, Pete Seeger, Lloyd L. Brown, William L. Patterson, Hope Stevens, Lawrence Brown, Douglas Turner Ward, Harry Bragg, Irwin Silber speak on Robeson’s activism for social justice, his intergrity and his refusal to give up his principles regardless of the personal sacraifice it caused him.
Same as PR 065 and CD 344, Track 1
Tribute to Paul Robeson, WBAI
Date: 1/1/1968Call Number: PR 077Format: 1/4 3 3/4 ipsProgram: WBAICollection: Paul Robeson recordings
Tribute to Paul Robeson, for his 70th Birthday. Pete Seeger narrates Robeson’s life, interspersed with Robeson recordings and commentary by Lawrence Brown, Lloyd L. Brown, Floyd McKissack, Ted Poston, Harry Bragg, Leonard dePaur.
Robeson recording of “Go Down Moses;” the last speech of Othello, with Robeson’s introduction; narrative on Robeson’s life by William L. Patterson; recordig made by the Westchester Committee for Law & Order following the Peekskill “riots” of 1949, with the Weavers singing “Hold the Line,” and Pete Seeger, Howard Fast, Alice Childress, Fred Hillerman telling the true story of the attacks at Peekskill and commenting on Robeson’s fightback; recording of Robeson singing “The House I Live In.”
Also contains recordings from the May 18, 1952 Peace Arch Concert and the 1957 concert via trans-atlantic cable to the Eisteddfod Festival in Wales.
Same as CD 341 & 342
Peekskill Riots: Oral History Documentary
Date: 1/1/1972Call Number: PR 084Format: 1/4 3 3/4 ipsProducers: WBAICollection: Paul Robeson recordings
Includes audio clips of eye-witness accounts of the August 27, 1949 and September 4, 1949 events including on-the-scene radio reports, produced and hosted by David Gelber.
Same as CD 367, Track 1
Paul Robeson, Songs
Steal Away, Were You There When They Crucified My Lord, By and By, Water Boy, My Rosary, When You Come to the End of A Perfect Day, Trees, Drink To Me Only With Thine Eyes, River of Dreams, Loch Lomond, Wales, All Through The Night, Songs My Mother Taught Me, Silent Night, Down in Lovers’ Lane, and others.
Same as CD 380, Track 1
TV coverage of SLA and Communiques
KPFA Radio report on the SLA. Anchor reads demands of SLA shortly after the kidnapping of Patty Hearst. Also contains communiqué from Cinque. Lists and describes "enemies of the people." He speaks to his daughters explaining his commitment to the people's liberation. Plays the Symbionese Liberation Army National Anthem. Same as KP 565.
Stew Albert Commentary
Date: 2/13/1969Call Number: KP 340Format: 1/4 3 3/4 ipsProducers: KPFAProgram: CommentaryCollection: General materials
Commentary by well-known activist Stew Albert talking about women's liberation, starting from a list of notable women in US that did not include hardly any who accomplished things on their own.
