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![Jack Hirschman](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Date: 12/1/2005Call Number: CD 514Format: CDProducers: Greg LandauCollection: Compact discs and videos representing digitized copies of analog tapes
Collection of Jack Hirschman readings of his own poetry.
![Puerto Rico - Comandante Filiberto Ojeda Rios](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Date: 9/23/2005Call Number: CD 518Format: DVDCollection: Compact discs and videos representing digitized copies of analog tapes
Filiberto Habla - based on an interview with Filiberto Ojeda Rios while he was in clandestinity (English subtitles) and discussing the current state of the Puerto Rican Independence Movement.
El Funeral - Mensaje, Lares 9/23/2005 Including the funeral after Filiberto's assassination by the FBI, portions of his last message to the Grito de Lares celebration in 2005 (pre-recorded and only audio).
The video is made in tribute:
"Soy senador porque soy revolucionario"
![Interview with John Bowman](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Date: 10/28/2005Call Number: CD 521Format: CDProducers: Claude MarksCollection: Compact discs and videos representing digitized copies of analog tapes
John Bowman, targeted by a CA State Grand Jury investigating a police murder at Ingleside Station on August 29, 1971, explains why he will not cooperate. He speaks of his history as a Black Panther and community organizer, COINTELPRO, police abuse and repression, and his torture upon being captured in New Orleans in 1973.
![No to Torture - 1](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Date: 12/8/2005Call Number: CD 531Format: CDCollection: Compact discs and videos representing digitized copies of analog tapes
Former Panthers speak at a TransAfrica press conference about current grand jury repression against former Black activists.
![No to Torture - 2](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Date: 12/8/2005Call Number: CD 532Format: CDCollection: Compact discs and videos representing digitized copies of analog tapes
Former Panthers speak at a TransAfrica press conference about current grand jury repression against former Black activists.
![Soul of Justice: Thelton Henderson's American Journey](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Date: 1/1/2005Call Number: V 235Format: DVDProducers: Abbey GinzbergCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
A timely and unforgettable story about one person’s commitment to integrity and human rights and his profound influence on the American judicial system. Riveting and thought-provoking film transports viewers through the inspiring life and work of one of the first African-American federal judges in the United States and chronicles the impact of his decisions on the lives of millions
As the first black attorney in the Civil Rights Division of the Kennedy Justice Department in the 1960’s, Henderson, fresh out of law school, confronted the intricate challenges of being a black man in authority within the largely all-white world of the American legal system. With rare and powerful archival footage SOUL OF JUSTICE offers viewers an intimate window into the world of the young lawyer as he grapples with tough choices, including the decision to loan a car to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., a crucial act which which ultimately cost him his job.
![Ward Churchill and Natsu Saito Uncut! Tape 1 0f 2](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Ward Churchill Professor of Ethnic Studies at the University
of Colorado gives a speech, primarily to discuss the controversy
swirling around him, but also to promote his book On the Justice of
Roosting Chickens: Reflections on the Consequences of U.S. Imperial
Arrogance and Criminality. The first of these speeches took place on
the evening of March 25 at The Women's Building in San Francisco's
Mission District. Churchill's wife and fellow professor Natsu Saito gives a short speech preceding Churchill's.
![Ward Churchill Uncut! Tape 2 of 2](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Ward Churchill, a member of the Colorado chapter of the
American Indian Movement, speaks on his Cherokee heritage, Leonard
Peltier's incarceration, the United States repression of indigenous
people, conservative Colorado based journalist Charlie Brennan, and Churchill's own anachronistic analysis of the Palestine situation.
![Ward Churchill](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Ward Churchill Professor of Ethnic Studies at the University of Colorado speaks at the anarchist book fair. Churchill discusses the controversy swirling around him, and promotes his book On the Justice of Roosting Chickens: Reflections on the consequences of U.S. Imperial Arrogance and Criminality. Churchill compares Americans to Nazi's. He also discusses Iraqi victims of the war, right-wing conservative government control, and U.S. government perpetrated genocide.
![Negroes with Guns: Rob Williams and Black Power](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Date: 1/1/2005Call Number: V 255Format: VHSProducers: Sandra Dickson, Churchill RobertsCollection: Robert F. Williams!
Robert F. Williams was the forefather of the Black Power movement and broke dramatic new ground by internationalizing the African American struggle. Negroes with Guns is not only an electrifying look at an historically erased leader, but also provides a thought-provoking examination of Black radicalism and resistance and serves as a launching pad for the study of Black liberation philosophies. Insightful interviews with historian Clayborn Carson, biographer Timothy Tyson, Julian Bond, and a first person account by Mabel Williams, Robert’s wife, bring the story to life.
Robert Franklin Williams was born in Monroe, North Carolina in 1925. As a young man he worked for the Ford Motor Company in Detroit until he was drafted into the United States Army in 1944—where he learned to take up arms.
Back in Monroe, Williams married Mabel Robinson, a young woman who shared his commitment to social justice and African American freedom. After the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision, Klan activity in Monroe skyrocketed, successfully intimidating African Americans and nearly shutting down the local chapter of the NAACP. Williams revived it to nearly 200 strong by reaching out to everyday laborers and to fellow Black veterans—men who were not easily intimidated. When repeated assaults on Black women in the county were ignored by the law, Williams filed for a charter from the NRA; the Black Armed Guard was born. During a 1957 integration campaign that faced violent white resistance, Williams’ armed defense guard successfully drove off legions of the Klan and electrified the Black community.
In 1961, Freedom Riders came to Monroe, planning to demonstrate the superior effectiveness of passive resistance over armed self-defense. They were bloodied, beaten and jailed, and finally called on Williams for protection from thousands of rioting Klansmen. Despite the threatening mobs, Williams sheltered a white family from violence, only to be later accused of kidnapping them. Fleeing death threats, Rob and Mabel gathered their children, left everything behind and fled for their lives—pursued by FBI agents on trumped-up kidnapping charges.
Williams and his family spent five years in Cuba where he wrote his electrifying book, Negroes With Guns and produced Radio Free Dixie for the international airwaves. They later moved on to China, where they were well received — but always longed for their forbidden home. In 1969, Williams exchanged his knowledge of the Chinese government for safe passage to the States. Rob and Mabel lived their remaining days together in Michigan where he died in 1995. His body was returned at long last to his hometown of Monroe, N.C.