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Stetson Kennedy Interview on anti-racism
Date: 1/1/1991Call Number: JG/ 117Format: CassetteCollection: Programs produced by Judy Gerber and Laurie Simms
Explains his experience resisting racism and white supremacy in Depression-era, Jim Crow and poverty stricken South in the 1930s. He talks about the class construction and expansion the Ku Klux Klan, as well as the growth of antiracist organization, including his personal investigation of Klan activity.
From Greensboro to Zimbabwe
Date: 11/22/1980Call Number: FI 122Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Lincoln Bergman, Heber DreherProgram: Freedom is A Constant StruggleCollection: Freedom is a Constant Struggle
On the injustice of the not guilty verdict in Greensboro after the murders of demonstrators there earlier by Klan and Nazis, in 1979.
Detailed interview on victory and current situation in Zimbabwe.
Say it Plain
Date: 1/1/2005Call Number: CD 737Format: DVDProducers: Catherine Ellis, Stephen Drury SmithCollection: Compact discs and videos representing digitized copies of analog tapes
Speeches by: Booker T. Washington, Marcus Garvey , Mary McLeod Bethune, Walter White, Charles Hamilton Houston, Thurgood Marshall, Howard Thurman, Dick Gregory, Fannie Lou Hamer, Stokely Carmichael, Martin Luther King, Jr., John Hope Franklin, Shirley Chisholm, Barbara Jordan, Benjamin L. Hooks, Joseph Lowery, Louis Farrakhan, Jesse Jackson, Johnetta Cole, Lani Guinier, Clarence Thomas, Randall Robinson, and Julian Bond.
Black Panthers - Huey!
Date: 2/17/1968Call Number: CD 659Format: DVDProducers: Agnes VardaCollection: Compact discs and videos representing digitized copies of analog tapes
Free Huey rally held on February 17th, 1968 (Newton's birthday). Over 5,000 people attended - speakers including Eldridge Cleaver, Bobby Seale, James Forman, Bob Avakian, Stokely Carmichael, H. Rap Brown and Ron Dellums. The speakers outline the Party's platform goals, their strategies for freeing Newton from jail and more.
Huey P Newton - Prelude to Revolution
Date: 1/1/1967Call Number: V 368Format: DVDProducers: John EvansCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Filmed prison interviews with Huey P. Newton, leader of the Black Panther Party, imprisoned in 1967 for the manslaughter of a white police officer in Oakland. Newton was freed in 1971 when a California Court of Appeals overturned his conviction. Newton elaborates on his revolutionary politics the Ten Point Platform - called for, Black community self-determination, full employment, decent housing for Black people, an end to police brutality, and "an immediate end to all wars of aggression," meaning the Vietnam War.
Black Power and anti-imperialism - 1 of 3
Date: 11/1/1967Call Number: CD 666Format: CDCollection: Compact discs and videos representing digitized copies of analog tapes
Discussion and debate of anti-war movement, Black power and Black liberation. Public Forum moderated by psychologist and gay pastor Jim Sandmire with Peter Lewis representing the new left and Black Panthers Don Bryant and Sam Napier. Topics include is revolution realistic, race war in the US and international revolutionary movements.
Black Power and anti-imperialism - 2 of 3
Date: 11/1/1967Call Number: CD 667Format: CDCollection: Compact discs and videos representing digitized copies of analog tapes
Discussion and debate of anti-war movement, Black power and Black liberation. Public Forum moderated by psychologist and gay pastor Jim Sandmire with Peter Lewis representing the new left and Black Panthers Don Bryant and Sam Napier. Topics include is revolution realistic, race war in the US and international revolutionary movements.
Black Power and anti-imperialism - 3 of 3
Date: 11/1/1967Call Number: CD 668Format: CDCollection: Compact discs and videos representing digitized copies of analog tapes
Discussion and debate of anti-war movement, Black power and Black liberation. Public Forum moderated by psychologist and gay pastor Jim Sandmire with Peter Lewis representing the new left and Black Panthers Don Bryant and Sam Napier. Topics include is revolution realistic, race war in the US and international revolutionary movements.
Public Enemy - Reflections of the Black Panthers
Date: 1/1/1999Call Number: CD 669Format: DVDProducers: Jens MeurerCollection: Compact discs and videos representing digitized copies of analog tapes
Four former members of the Black Panther Party discuss revolutionaries after the revolution. Focuses on the personal lives, past and present. Former political prisoner and current playwright Jamal Joseph; musician and record producer, Nile Rodgers (Chic, Sister Sledge); law professor and lecturer Kathleen Cleaver; and the last surviving founding member, Bobby Seale.
What were the Party's long-term effects on African Americans and their status in society? How did the Black Panther Party impact popular culture? How did these leaders' involvement personally affect them - their hopes, their dreams? And after tumultuous years of being viewed by the FBI as "the greatest internal threat to the nation," how does America perceive them today?
Interlaces archival protest footage with recent interviews.
Zimbabwe, Greensboro, Stonewall
Date: 4/19/1981Call Number: FI 130Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Barbara Lubinski, Heber DreherProgram: Freedom Is A Constant StruggleCollection: Freedom is a Constant Struggle
Zimbabwe representative to UN speaks on victory and goal of a non-racial society. Anti-racist demonstration and march in San Francisco with speech by Nelson Johnson on murder of anti-Klan activists in Greensboro North Carolina, also Stonewall Coalition liberation. Excellent poem against Nazis speaking at SF State.