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Kwame Ture on the history of black student revolutionary organizations Kwame Ture on the history of black student revolutionary organizations
Date: 3/22/1994Call Number: AFR 051Format: Cass A & BProgram: Student Organizing from 1960 to 1994Collection: Kwame Ture
Kwame Ture speaks about the history of black student revolutionary protest organizations such as SNCC (Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee) and the BPP (Black Panther Party). He talks about the oppression of the capitalist system in disorganizing black organizations. He explains how Africans are used to having a hard life and constantly struggling for freedom. Struggle makes you stronger, and brings progress. Ture calls people to push black consciousness and to talk about both the oppressed and the oppressor, so as to avoid blaming the oppressed in the end. He also talks about how it is the capitalist system’s job to instill ideas of inferiority in African Americans, but he calls people to fight inferiority, and to increase their consciousness of African contributions to America. Ture talks about how Africa was the first continent to unite different countries under the OAU (Organization of African Unity). Lastly, he speaks about African’s high level of unity in action, but not in thought, because of the prevalence of ignorance of the value of organizing.
Discussion on the effects of global white supremacy on Africans Discussion on the effects of global white supremacy on Africans
Date: 10/23/1991Call Number: AFR 053Format: Cass A & BProducers: UAM: United African MovementProgram: Global White Supremacy, Part 1Collection: Africa- General Resources
Recorded off mic. Discussion on the effects of global white supremacy on Africans historically, legally, and psychologically. The audio begins with Imhotep Gary Byrd leading the audience in a song. John Henrik Clarke speaks how black people are the chosen people of God, and how historically, the Jews have benefited from the slave trade. He also talks about Louis Farrakhan, minister of the nation of Islam, and his contributions to the black man. He also gives a historical perspective on global white supremacy, saying that blacks do not understand white supremacy because they don’t understand white people. He asserts that whites feel superior because they aren’t rich in culture and family life like blacks are, and they want that without paying for it. Clarke calls people to read more and to become educated. He speaks about Egypt not being white because it is deep within Africa, so they cannot claim superiority over other Africans. He also speaks about the bastardization of Africans, physically through skin color, and mentally through the desire to be white. He claims there is no reason for white colonization except the whites desire for resources and to take over another people. He says that the only way to overcome global white supremacy would be for all Africans to unite. Audio tape includes a rap song about race relations between minorities (blacks) and whites. No Justice, No Peace.
Discussion on the effects of global white supremacy on Africans Discussion on the effects of global white supremacy on Africans
Date: 10/23/1991Call Number: AFR 054Format: Cass A & BProducers: UAM: United African MovementProgram: Global White Supremacy, Part 2Collection: Africa- General Resources
Recorded off mic. Discussion on the effects of global white supremacy on Africans historically, legally, and psychologically. The audio begins with Imhotep Gary Byrd leading the audience in a song. John Henrik Clarke speaks how black people are the chosen people of God, and how historically, the Jews have benefited from the slave trade. He also talks about Louis Farrakhan, minister of the nation of Islam, and his contributions to the black man. He also gives a historical perspective on global white supremacy, saying that blacks do not understand white supremacy because they don’t understand white people. He asserts that whites feel superior because they aren’t rich in culture and family life like blacks are, and they want that without paying for it. Clarke calls people to read more and to become educated. He speaks about Egypt not being white because it is deep within Africa, so they cannot claim superiority over other Africans. He also speaks about the bastardization of Africans, physically through skin color, and mentally through the desire to be white. He claims there is no reason for white colonization except the whites desire for resources and to take over another people. He says that the only way to overcome global white supremacy would be for all Africans to unite. Audio tape includes a rap song about race relations between minorities (blacks) and whites. No Justice, No Peace.
The Best of Paul Robeson Vol. 3: Paul Robeson The Best of Paul Robeson Vol. 3: Paul Robeson
Call Number: Vin 082Format: VinylProducers: Starline, EMI RecordsCollection: Colin Edwards Collection
An actor, singer, professional football player, humanitarian, and civil rights activist, Paul Robeson was an extremely influential figure of the 20th century. This album is a collection of Robeson's recordings over his career. It ranges from Russian folk songs to war song to Negro spiritual songs.
The Essential Paul Robeson: Paul Robeson The Essential Paul Robeson: Paul Robeson
Date: 1/1/1974Call Number: Vin 085Format: VinylProducers: Vanguard Recording Society Inc.Collection: Colin Edwards Collection
An actor, singer, professional football player, humanitarian, and civil rights activist, Paul Robeson was an extremely influential figure of the 20th century. This album is a collection of Robeson's recordings over his career. It ranges from his renditions of European classics to Negro Spirituals.
GOODNEWS (Sweet Honey In The Rock) GOODNEWS (Sweet Honey In The Rock)
Call Number: Vin 103Format: VinylCollection: Freedom is a Constant Struggle
Sweet Honey In The Rock is America's Premiere female acappella quintet. This album is full of sacred songs presented to inform and inspire. Topics include Apartheid, Steve Biko, Soweto and Chile.
A Strategy for Struggle A Strategy for Struggle
Author: Ron KarengaPublisher: The Black ScholarDate: 11/1973Volume Number: NovemberFormat: ArticleCollection: Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA)
This article by Rob Karenga appears in the Black Scholar of November 1973. Karenga calls for liberation of Afroamericans by accessing "critical space" inside economic and political institutions. In his article he provides ways to meet objectives of the liberation struggle and comments on Pan-Africanism.