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Interview with George Jackson’s lawyer and former fellow inmate/comrade
Track 1: Interview with John Thorne, George Jackson’s lawyer, about his relationship with George. Describes George as a selfless leader, always bringing in lawyers to discuss the cases of fellow inmates. Talks about George’s solidarity with other movements, his dedication to struggle for freedom, his ultimate discipline and preparedness for attack. Discusses some of the letters between George and Angela Davis about fascism within the United States. Track 2: Interview of Popeye Jackson, former fellow prisoner of George’s in San Quentin and Soledad prisons, discussing the impossibility of the State’s case for assassinating George Jackson. Discusses the repressive conditions of the adjustment center and the many revolutionaries abused within solitary confinement. Reads a letter from Fleeta Drumgo about his treatment in the case of his death.
Black Panther Party Political Education Garage School
Date: 9/8/1971Call Number: PM 109Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: BBC - GranadaCollection: Black Panther Party general
Black Panther Party kids singing free political prisoners, free David Hilliard, free Angela Davis, free Ruchell Magee, free all our people. Panther woman (name unknown) leads a class discussing definition of political prisoners and the criminal justice system. If someone can’t feed/clothe their family, doesn’t that make them a political prisoner? Talk about racism in the courtroom, all white juries, how the law doesn’t serve the people, how many people personally know prisoners.
Winnie Mandela and the anti-Apartheid movement
1988 or 1989: Alice Walker facilitates a discussion between Paris Williams, Pearl Alice Marsh, Joyce Carrol Thomas, and Angela Davis about their thoughts on the accusation that Winnie Mandela’s bodyguards beat a South African boy. They discuss the media, racism, and sexism (sexism within the anti Apartheid movement as well as among Apartheid supporters). The tape starts and ends in the middle of a sentence.
Winnie Mandela and the anti-Apartheid movement
(same as KP 048a) 1988 or 89: Alice Walker and Bernice Johnson Regan reading from Winnie Mandela’s autobiography, “Part of My Soul Went With Him.” Johnson reads the chapter titled “No Human Beings Can GO On Taking Those Humiliations Without Reaction.” Begins and ends in the middle of a sentence.
KPFA Radio News Summary and Update on the San Quentin Six Trial.
Attorney for David Johnson, Frank Cox, filed an affidavit regarding Melvin Cotton Smith's role as a paid informant for the L.A. police department. The news summary gives a good and detailed history of the events surrounding George Jackson's death up to the circumstances involving the San Quentin Six. Included is information on James Carr, COINTELPRO, and the ideological split between Eldridge Cleaver and Huey P. Newton in the Black Panther Party. Contains excerpt of a recording of George Jackson talking three months before his murder, excerpts of an interview with Eldridge Cleaver in exile from Paris, and a telephone interview with Bob Gardner who witnessed the 1970 shootings of W. L. Nolan, Alvin Miller, Cleveland Edwards at Soledad Prison.
Black August
Date: 1/1/2008Call Number: V 282Format: DVDProducers: T Cinque SampsonCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
The story of Black Panther George Jackson's life through to his murder in 1971 at the hands of San Quentin Prison guards.
This is dramatized & fictionalized.
PIC and Perceptions of Crime
Date: 4/27/1998Call Number: PM 299Format: Cass A & BProducers: Prison Activist Resource CenterProgram: On The OutsideCollection: Political Prisoner Periodicals
Features excerpts of Ida Robinson and Angela Davis speaking at UCSC concerning the Prison-Industrial Complex and the role of the media in creating perceptions of crime.
Real Dragon
Date: 7/29/1972Call Number: RD 001Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Lincoln BergmanProgram: Real Dragon (Midnight Flash)Collection: “The Real Dragon” a news magazine including music and poetry
Early Real Dragon on late night Saturday show (Oneness with Roland Young/Glenn Howell). Syphilis experiments, conviction of Geronimo Pratt, Ruchell Magee case/report on demonstration in San Francisco with strong speech by Angela Davis. Briefs on other trials, H Rap Brown, Justice and Gibson, Stephanie Klein, bombing of Army recruiting station in Oakland, lots of international news, Uruguay, Vietnam China (Lin Piao) Vietnam.
The Black Panther Black Community News Service
Publisher: The Black Panther PartyYear: 1970Volume Number: Vol. 5-16 October 17Format: PeriodicalCollection: Black Panther Party Community News Service
Cover Story: Alprentice 'Bunchy' Carter Deputy Minister of Defense Black Panther Party L.A. California. Born- October 12, 1942 Assassinated- January 17, 1969.
The Black Panther Black Community News Service
Publisher: The Black Panther PartyYear: 1971Volume Number: Vol. 5-30 January 23Format: PeriodicalCollection: Black Panther Party Community News Service
Cover Story: Let Us Hold High the Banner of Intercommunalism and the Invincible Thoughts of Huey P. Newton, Minister of Defense and Supreme Commander of the Black Panther Party.