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Mark Essex

Date: 1/6/1974Call Number: KP 012AFormat: Cass AProducers: Dave LampellCollection: Black Liberation

Dave Lampell delivers a short program documenting the shootout in New Orleans in 1974 where Mark Essex, a 23 year old Vietnam veteran killed police officers. The area was closed off, and calling on backup for reinforcements, police numbers were in the hundreds. They believed there to be more than one sniper. They shot Mark Essex over one hundred times, killing him the first night of the shootout. The police also took out many of their own in an insane display of force. The rest of the program gives a history of Mark Essex’s life in Kansas and suffering racism in the military. Great quotes about the racist State from his mother and sister.

I Won't Drown on that Levee and You Ain't Gonna Break My Back

Date: 1/1/2006Call Number: CD 512Format: DVDProducers: Ashley HuntCollection: Compact discs and videos representing digitized copies of analog tapes

30 minute video documents the evacuation of Orleans Parish Prison, the building of the "Greyhound Jail" inside the New Orleans' Greyhound Station, and the criminalization of survivors of Hurricane Katrina, placing overwhelming stress on families and loved ones and hindering their 'right to return.' It uses footage from our October Human Rights delegation on the status of prisoners, interviews with family members, news clips and archival film.

Solidarity Not Charity

Date: 12/1/2005Call Number: CD 548Format: DVDProducers: Common GroundCollection: Compact discs and videos representing digitized copies of analog tapes

Made during the period of the Thanksgiving Road Trip by an amazing volunteer team of videomakers. It is a wonderful expression of Common Ground's overall mission as well as a document of the work achieved so far. With titles and music and footage of banging down walls as well as political analysis.

Faubourg Treme: The Untold Story of Black New Orleans

Call Number: CD 840Format: DVDProducers: California NewsreelCollection: Compact discs and videos representing digitized copies of analog tapes

Faubourg Treme is considered the oldest black neighborhood in America, the origin of the Southern Civil Rights Movement, and the birthplace of jazz. The completed film uncovers Treme’s unique and hidden history and situates it within three centuries of African American struggle - from slavery through Reconstruction, Jim Crow, and Civil Rights, to the recent threat of Hurricane Katrina.

The Black Panther Black Community News Service

Publisher: The Black Panther PartyYear: 1970Volume Number: Vol. 4-3 July 25Format: PeriodicalCollection: Black Panther Party Community News Service

Cover Story: Political Prisoners Within the Confines of USA Concentration Camps

The Black Panther Black Community News Service

Publisher: The Black Panther PartyYear: 1970Volume Number: Vol. 5-11 September 12Format: PeriodicalCollection: Black Panther Party Community News Service

Cover Story: Huey's Message to The Revolutionary People's Constitutional Convention Plenary Session September 5, 1970 Philadelphia PA. Also Inside: Five Year Old Black Child Attacked by Maniac, The Tombs, N.Y., Harvey Nobles Murdered by Pigs, Brooklyn N.Y., Revolutionary People's Constitutional Convention

The Black Panther Black Community News Service

Publisher: The Black Panther PartyYear: 1970Volume Number: Vol. 5-21 November 21Format: PeriodicalCollection: Black Panther Party Community News Service

Cover Story: Pigs Assassinate Brother and Sister in Robbins, Illinois.

The Black Panther Black Community News Service

Publisher: The Black Panther PartyYear: 1971Volume Number: Vol. 6-4 February 20Format: PeriodicalCollection: Black Panther Party Community News Service

Cover Story: Happy Birthday Huey P. Newton