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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.
Passin’ It On: The Story of a Black Panther’s Search for Justice
Date: 1/1/1993Call Number: V 116Format: VHSProducers: John ValadezCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
About the same time the Black Panther Party entered the realm of the legendary, one of its favorite sons went to prison for the attempted murder of two white New York City police officers. While Richard Moore was serving over 19 years for a crime he swears he didn't commit, the Black Panther movement disintegrated because of FBI harassment and internal power sturggles.
Now, Richard Moore is Dhoruba Bin Wahad. And he is a free man, the result of his conviction being overturned on the basis of "prosecutorial misconduct." Passin' It On vibrantly brings to life the history of the Black Panthers, and dramatically tells the story of Dhoruba Bin Wahad, offering an unforgettable window into the African-American experience.
FBI Files: Deacons for Defense & Justice
Call Number: CD 174Format: CDProducers: www.paperlessarchives.comCollection: Compact discs and videos representing digitized copies of analog tapes
FBI FOIA files for Deacons for Defense & Justice. These are data files, scanned documents, fully excized by our Federal Bureau.
Female Political Prisoners - series of interviews
Call Number: JG/ 070Format: CassetteProducers: Judy Gerber, Lisa RudmanProgram: KPFACollection: Programs produced by Judy Gerber and Laurie Simms
This is a collection of different interviews and recordings of female political prisoners from around the world. Lisa Rudman collages them together to show the injustice towards political prisoners and to highlight some of the many tactics used by the US government and prison system to get information out of political prisoners.
Rudman defines political prisoners and interviews Laura Whitehorn and Linda Evans and speaks about their cases and the circumstances leading to their imprisonment.
The other political prisoners interviewed on the tape are: Dora Garcia, active in the national liberation struggles in the US colony of Puerto Rico; Mercedes Algado, a refugee active in the FSLM and FDR in El Salvador; Elizabeth Sebego, active in the Pan African Congress; Assata Shakur, active with the Black Panthers and now a refugee in Cuba; a Filipina imprisoned for her work with the church.
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.
Paul Robeson FBI files
Date: 1/1/1998Call Number: CD 234Format: CDProducers: Eugene GordonCollection: Compact discs and videos representing digitized copies of analog tapes
Paul Robeson’s FBI files on CD Rom, over 2800 pages of official FBI memos.
The Forest for the Trees: Judi Bari v. the FBI
Date: 7/5/2005Call Number: CD 274Format: DVDProducers: Redbird Films - Bernadine MellisCollection: Compact discs and videos representing digitized copies of analog tapes
In 1990, Earth First! organizer Judi Bari's car was bombed. Within three hours of the bombing, Bari was accused of transporting the explosives that had nearly killed her. Still in the hospital, she was arrested, and labeled a terrorist in the national media. The Forest for the Trees follows the bombing and arrest of Judi Bari, and her subsequent civil suit against the FBI. At the heart of the film, made by Bari’s lawyer’s daughter, is Bari, a folk hero with an electrifying onscreen presence, and the legal battle against law enforcement that few believed she could win.
The Question of Afro-American Manhood, Part 1
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Intro to RFW by Elombe Brath. Tells part of NAACP NY rally story. First speaker is Robert Harris--wild maniac Europeans in North Carolina. Negroes with Guns… I'll not befriend my exterminator! Brother Kwando Kinshasha, was one of Panther 21--the book Negroes with Guns--a Negro with a gun is an African...refers to Battle of Algiers...a landless nation..summary of "how we greet Robert Williams--the converting of words into deeds!" Refers to Africa, Haiti, South Africa--three lessons of RFW--organization, struggle, and self-defense. A fellow warrior in our peoples struggle in our peoples struggle and for self-determination. Next is Vicki Garvin....4 years in Ghana and six years in China.. She says: I'm honored to be here...met him in the 1950s...close relationship with Malcolm X--Rob took the initiative to heads of states of five countries...only Mao responded in 1963. 1 million people mass demonstration, when Mao's 2nd statement after MLK assassination. Brath mentions liberation theology, Aristide. Father Lawrence Lucas speaks--speaks on the idiocy of non-violence--very militant--refers to Colin Powell killing for the crackers—the criminal justice system--"because it is criminal and it is far removed from justice. " ("Theologically speaking, for the FBI agents who are here taking notes..."). NY 8 plus case. Roger Wareham, Dec 12th movement, next speaker. Robert Williams begins speaking, welcomed back to Harlem: Harlem has special place in my heart. Mosque #7--Malcolm minister, collected money--for guns and ammunution. We were united. Even had a white Catholic priest who was helping us. Importance of each other--what a united front is, what it means. how did he get to cuba? to china? because of YOU. picture in post office—500 agents to his case...FOIA files.. Demonstrations in the south--torture of civil rights demonstrators. Gotta have a deterrent. We rose up! Young people on a (drug) trip—shooting up--Opium comment--China, British brought it in...when I left here students were making revolution—when I came home, they were sitting in the yard, everybody sleepin'--a drug problem. In China, how they overcame it. "We are the only people in the world who require our leaders to die to prove that they are genuine!". Support from Japan--tells Kissinger story. Refers to Birmingham Sunday, told little Chinese girls about it. "Uncle when you go home--when we get grown we gonna liberate them." Land base area--Chen Yi send trips. Got to forge this link with people. Tells story about Cuba and his sons and air force officers. Told them to fire--I did it for you! Take this parachute and remember. Mentions Radio Free Dixie...playing jazz...when I came back Knight publications were whispering he was an agent. Detroit--University of Michigan, center for Chinese studies. We have to be on guard, educate our people. we are losing our muscle--muscle comes from young men--they are killing them off. tells story of prison in Britain, hunger strike. put him in hospital. chaplain.
Robert F Williams Interview with Marc Schleifer Part 2
Date: 7/4/1962Call Number: RFW 038Format: CDProducers: Marc SchleiferCollection: Robert F. Williams!
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Pacifica Radio - Marc Schleifer interview Track 1 industrial commission development ***3:12 Freedom Riders (to 8min) 8min beating of 10-year old for being on picket line, others attacked 9:30 police refused to protect them 12:00 Governor's assistant - death threat 14:30 no FBI help 15min threats against Freedom Riders 16min Black community defends itself against supremacist crowd Track 2 0:41 minutemen, racists gather in town, Klan ready to attack students & Freedom Riders 1:38 cops disarm Blacks, give them over to whites 2:20 cops become vicious - spray Freedom Riders with insecticides 3:30 police participated openly in violence August 27, 1961 6min demanded medical attention for Freedom Riders 7:40 "open season on coons" Track 3 1min the incident 8:50 life threatened 11:15 heard about indictment 14:19 indicted & house raided after they left Track 4 4:15 they meant to get rid of me with charges (no justice in North Carolina) *11min justice department part of the conspiracy *15min the only crime was to fight for human rights...over 5000 arrested (to end)
Interview with Anna Mae Aquash
Date: 12/1/1975Call Number: CD 332Format: CDCollection: Compact discs and videos representing digitized copies of analog tapes
Last known interview with Ann Mae Aquash before her murder. She speaks extensively about FBI harassment and threats against her and the American Indian Movement.
