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Defining Black Power - Part Four
Black voices: Defining Black Power: a sampler of famous speeches.
Martin Luther King 22:08 (1/14/1962)
Huey Newton 10:51 (9/4/1970)
Defining Black Power - Part Five
Black voices: Defining Black Power: a sampler of famous speeches.
Eldridge Cleaver 12:29 (4/28/1969)
Maulana Karenga 11:31 (4/28/1969)
H Rap Brown (Jamil al Amin) 15:25 (1968)
Defining Black Power - Part Six
Black voices: Defining Black Power: a sampler of famous speeches.
Leroi Jones (Amiri Baraka) 12:49 (8/6/1964)
John Hope Franklin 16:00 (4/3/1969)
Self Defense, Self Respect & Self Determination: A Conversation with Mabel Williams and Kathleen Cleaver - Part 1
Self Defense, Self Respect & Self Determination: A Conversation with Mabel Williams and Kathleen Cleaver, introduced by Angela Davis. Addressing the subjugated history of the Black Liberation Movement.
Self Defense, Self Respect & Self Determination: A Conversation with Mabel Williams and Kathleen Cleaver - Part 2
Self Defense, Self Respect & Self Determination: A Conversation with Mabel Williams and Kathleen Cleaver, introduced by Angela Davis. Addressing the subjugated history of the Black Liberation Movement.
Mabel Williams interviewed by Walter Turner
Interview with Mabel Williams by Walter Turmer for Africa Today and Hard Knock Radio.
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.
BBC on Weathermen
Call Number: CD 175Format: DVDProducers: BBCCollection: Compact discs and videos representing digitized copies of analog tapes
A BBC documentary on the Weathermen. Actually fairly balanced given the American media frensy during this era. Good interviews with Linda Evans, Bernardine Dohrn, Jennifer Dohrn & Jonah Raskin. This is a DVD!
Day of the Gun
Date: 1/1/2003Call Number: V 131Format: VHSProducers: KRONCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
KRON’s description:
In the fall of 1970 George Jackson skyrocketed to international fame with the publication of his book, "Soledad Brother, The Prison Letters Of George Jackson".
By the next year, he was dead.
The story of George Jackson is a story of the dark side of America.
In August of 1971 when Jackson was a 29 year old inmate at California's San Quentin Prison he became the central figure in the prison's bloodiest day.
Jackson obtained a gun and in less than 30 minutes a murderous rampage turned the adjustment center into a slaughterhouse. Six men, including Jackson were killed.
During his prison life, George Jackson was a polarizing figure, hated as much as he was loved.
In the end when George Jackson's cause had been lost, and the cult of hero worship contaminated his heart and soul, Jackson sought comfort in a few loyal friends... Marx... Lenin... And Ho Chi Minh, the Vietnamese revolutionary who predicted...'When the prison gates fly open, the dragons will emerge.'
On a hot August day with gun in hand Jackson would tell the world just that.
The ascendancy of George Jackson came at a time when America's soul and its people were coming apart.
The turbulent decades of the 1960's and 70's merged as one. The country's democratic institutions were severely challenged. Some advocated revolution.
The unpopular war in Vietnam had become the longest and most divisive in American history. The bitter struggle for civil rights confirmed the failed promise of equality for all. Riots turned American cities into burning embers.
The political assassinations of Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, Jr., and Robert Kennedy deepened the country's paranoia.
Huey P. Newton and the Black Panther Party wanted justice beyond the streets of Oakland.
The prisons of California had become a target for revolutionary change as well. The 'new left' viewed the growing convict population as symptomatic of the country's deeper social ills. Inmates were championed as political prisoners, vanguards of the coming revolution, victims of their fascist, capitalist oppressors.
When George Jackson emerged as the new god and leader of the left, those on the right saw him as the most powerful threat in the prison system.
Self Respect, Self Defense & Self Determination; a Moderated conversation with Mabel Williams and Kathleen Cleaver
Date: 3/14/2004Call Number: V 134Format: VHSProducers: Collision Course VideoCollection: Robert F. Williams!
Self Respect, Self Defense & Self Determination
An event held at the First Congregational Church in Oakland on Sunday, March 14, 2004 with Mabel Williams and Kathleen Cleaver. Both women were welcomed and introduced by Angela Davis.
These two inspiring women of the 60s Black liberation struggle met to share their personal experiences - resisting the KKK and police repression, forced into exile by government repression, and their international experiences in Third World nations.
Mabel Williams, with her late husband Robert F. Williams, met with Malcolm X, Ho Chi Minh, Che Guevara and Mao Tse Tung to help internationalize support for the Black Liberation Movement.
Kathleen Cleaver was Communications Secretary and the first woman on the Central Committee of the Black Panther Party.
The event was sponsored by The Freedom Archives in partnership with:
East Side Arts Alliance Community Center in the San Antonio district of Oakland, California
Malcolm X Grassroots Movement - Oakland
