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Call Number: V 337Format: VHSCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials

Inside USP Marion features interviews with prisoners, including Oscar Lopez Rivera and Sekou Odinga. Guards and other prison personnel are also interviewed.

Marion Prison and Inmate Interviews

Call Number: V 636Format: DV CamCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials

Excerpts of Inside USP Marion, features interview with political prisoner Oscar Lopez Rivera.

Marion Prison and Inmate Interviews

Call Number: V 637Format: DV CamCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials

Excerpts of Inside USP Marion, features interview with political prisoner Sekou Odinga.

Marion Prison and Inmate Interviews

Call Number: V 638Format: DV CamCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials

Excerpts of Inside USP Marion features interviews with prisoners, including Oscar Lopez Rivera and Sekou Odinga. Guards and other prison personnel are also interviewed.

SF Teach in 1983 (Tape 1)

Call Number: KP 522Format: Cass A & BCollection: New Afrika

Ahmed Obafemi is one of the main speakers at a San Francisco Teach- In which occurred in 1983. The KKK and the Republic of New Afrika/ The Black Liberation Movement are key topics in his and other’s speeches. Specifically mentioned are The Cowboys (a group of SFPD policemen from Richmond) who are connected with police brutality and violence against blacks and their homes. Richmond is proclaimed as the center of the Klan in the Bay Area. Obafemi also speaks about the importance of Malcolm X as a Black Nationalist Freedom Fighter, how his name changes represent the progression and changes within the Black Liberation Movement and current effort to distort the legacy of Malcolm X.