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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
Eyes on the Prize: Ain’t Gonna Shuffle No More (1964-1972) & A Nation of Law? (1968-1971)
Call Number: V 109Format: VHSProducers: PBSProgram: Eyes on the PrizeCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Ain’t Gonna Shuffle No More (1964-1972) - Muhammad Ali...Howard University...Gary, Indiana...Through these names, African Americans reclaimed their heritage in different ways.
A Nation of Law? (1968-1971) - The Black Panther Party...Fred Hampton...Attica...These names equaled controversy in the America of law and order promised by President Nixon. Urban rebellion & campus unrest, protest and reprisals.
The Murder of Fred Hampton
Date: 1/1/1971Call Number: V 158Format: VHSProducers: Film Group of Chicago: Mike GrayCollection: Fred Hampton
Directed by Howard Alk. Produced by Mike Gray. Associate Producer: Emmett Grogan; Camera: Mike Gray, Howard Alk; Sound: Jones Cullinan, John Mason, Chuck Olin; Editor: Howard Alk; Assistant editors: Jones Cullinan, John Mason; Additional Photography: Gordon Quinn; Production Manager: Jim Dennett.
In 1968 the Film Group, a Chicago production company, began filming a documentary about the Illinois chapter of the Black Panther Party and their chairman Fred Hampton. A fiery orator, Hampton was only 20 years old at the time, but his electrifying words and actions were inspiring young Black people to demand respect and to insist that their power and voice be felt in local politics, in any politics. But Fred Hampton's dream included all people when he proclaimed in the voice of the prophet, "... if we don't stop fascism it'll stop us all."
At that same moment the FBI/CIA was implementing their notorious domestic counterintelligence program (COINTELPRO) aimed at illegally suppressing domestic dissent and aimed especially at growing radical political organizations like the Black Panther Party. One FBI memo stated their charge as the need to "prevent the rise of a 'messiah' who could unite and electrify the militant black antinationalist movement." Working with local police departments, the government moved against Black Panther chapters and leaders across the country.
On December 4, 1969, in a predawn FBI-directed Chicago police raid, four Panthers suffered gunshot wounds, and Mark Clark and Fred Hampton were murdered. Within hours, Panthers arranged to get the Film Group crew into the scene and they were able to record the carnage. The film shows vividly what the police do to those who dare to openly, aggressively challenge government authority. In addition, the footage of the bloody, bullet-riddled wreckage directly contradicted the State's Attorney's version of the raid, and so filmmakers and Panthers came together to prove that Hampton had been the designated target of the violent, punitive raid. The film's inquiry pursues official spokesmen and traps them in their own lies and attempt at a cover-up of a brutal orchestrated assassination.
Out: the Making of a Revolutionary
Date: 1/1/2000Call Number: V 379Format: VHSProducers: Sonja de Vries, Rhonda CollinsCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Based on an interview with Laura Whitehorn who describes becoming a revolutionary and her identity as a lesbian and anti-imperialist. She was heavily influenced by the Black and women’s movements, the Vietnam war, and US policies in El Salvador, Lebanon and Grenada. “If you don’t do something against policies which counter human rights, you become an accomplice.” She was part of a group that attacked military and government targets. Laura was arrested in May 1985 in Baltimore. On August 6, 1999, after serving 14 years of her 26 year sentence, she was released from the Federal prison. Laura Whitehorn still thinks that militant struggle is a legitimate response to the violence of the US.
Out: the Making of a Revolutionary
Date: 1/1/2000Call Number: V 537Format: VHSProducers: Sonja de Vries, Rhonda CollinsCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Based on an interview with Laura Whitehorn who describes becoming a revolutionary and her identity as a lesbian and anti-imperialist. She was heavily influenced by the Black and women’s movements, the Vietnam war, and US policies in El Salvador, Lebanon and Grenada. “If you don’t do something against policies which counter human rights, you become an accomplice.” She was part of a group that attacked military and government targets. Laura was arrested in May 1985 in Baltimore. On August 6, 1999, after serving 14 years of her 26 year sentence, she was released from the Federal prison. Laura Whitehorn still thinks that militant struggle is a legitimate response to the violence of the US.
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