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Rally Before Sproul Hall occupation
Date: 12/2/1964Call Number: KP 015Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: John Scott KeechProgram: Free Speech MovementCollection: General materials
This is a recording of the famous Free Speech Movement rally at Sproul Plaza in UC Berkeley, just before students occupied the administration building, Sproul Hall. Includes excerpts from Mario Savio, Michael Rossman, Charles Powell, Joan Baez, Marty Roiche, and John Scott Keech.
Note: tape begins in middle of an announcement and ends in the middle of a song.
Speech by Malcolm X at the Democratic National Convention in Atlantic City, 1964
Date: 12/20/1964Call Number: KP 056Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Charles HobsonCollection: Malcolm X
Speech given at DNC about how some African countries won their independence through anger and violence. Black people must speak the language of the captors and recognize that what happens in Mississippi has nationwide impact. There is no difference between Northern and Southern Democrats because they work as a whole not as separate parts. Freedom is not something that is given to you, you must take it and Black people must be equipped to do that in the same way that others have done it in the past. Audio tape is cut off at the end.
Malcolm X, “The Ballot or the Bullet”
In this talk, one of his best known speeches, Malcolm X demonstrates the vision which contributed greatly to the new militancy within black organizations.
Please see http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/malcolmxballot.htm
for full transcription of the speech.
UC Berkeley Sproul Hall Sit-In
Date: 12/6/1964Call Number: KP 316Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: KPFA Public AffairsCollection: General materials
Series of short recordings of actuality of the famous Free Speech Movement Sproul Hall sit-in at UC Berkeley in 1964. Narration by John Scott Keech.
Ella Winter Interview
Date: 2/15/1964Call Number: KP 349Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Elsa Knight ThompsonCollection: General materials
Elsa Knight Thompson interviews Ella Winter, journalist for 40 years who had just written her autobiography. Alleged to be high level Communist/Hollywood 10, etc. Ella Winter (1898-1980) whose full name was Leonore Sophie Winter Steffens Stewart, was an economist by training and journalist by profession. She was married to Lincoln Steffens, and after his death, to screenwriter and playwright Donald Ogden Stewart.
They Know We're There: Pacifica Comes to Mississippi
Date: 8/17/1964Call Number: KP 391Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Elsa Knight ThompsonCollection: Voices from the South
Elsa Knight Thompson interviews reporter Chris Koch who has just returned from 1964 Freedom Summer in Mississippi on what he witnessed there and the impact on the South of the civil rights movement. (Koch went on to become very prominent in public radio circles).
LeRoi Jones on Black Writers: Tell It Like It Is - Part 1
Date: 9/20/1964Call Number: CE 127Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Colin EdwardsCollection: Colin Edwards Collection
History of Negro writers and how they had to emerge from "below the veil of anxious politeness" that was set in place by monied white audiences to reveal the true "Black experience" in America. Includes references to most influential Black artists - from jazz musicians to writers. LeRoi Jones reads from article "LeRoi Jones Speaking."
LeRoi Jones on Black Writers: Tell It Like It Is - Part 2
Date: 9/20/1964Call Number: CE 128Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Colin EdwardsCollection: Colin Edwards Collection
History of Black writers and how they had to emerge from "below the veil of anxious politeness" that was set in place by monied white audiences to reveal the true "Black experience" in America. Includes references to most influential Negro artists - from jazz musicians to writers. LeRoi Jones reads from article "LeRoi Jones Speaking."
LeRoi Jones on Black Writers: Tell It Like It Is - Part 3
Date: 9/20/1964Call Number: CE 129Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Colin EdwardsCollection: Colin Edwards Collection
History of Black writers and how they had to emerge from "below the veil of anxious politeness" that was set in place by monied white audiences to reveal the true "Black experience" in America. Includes references to most influential Negro artists - from jazz musicians to writers. LeRoi Jones reads from article "LeRoi Jones Speaking."
LeRoi Jones Reading of Poems
Date: 12/20/1964Call Number: CE 130Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Colin EdwardsCollection: Colin Edwards Collection
LeRoi Jones reading poems from his book "The Dead Lecturer". Includes mention of the influence Allen Ginsberg had on Jones' work.
