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Big Black speaks at Attica anniversary event
Big Black (Frank Smith) speaks about “where we should see ourselves in 1977”; US as prison state; need for intra-racial and inter-racial solidarity; responsibility and commitment to political organizing; ends with Q and A session
Attica 1971
During the radio show, the Attica prison takeover was currently in action. Beginning with folk music, the radio host gives insightful information about the prison struggle through thoughtful spoken word. The host also provides current news about the rebellion, George Jackson, Juan Ortiz, prison conditions, negotiations, hostages (guards), Rockefeller, and the demands of many inmates being sent in exile to a non-imperialist country. The radio show ends with readings from black women poets.
Attica Rebellion: 30 years later
Publisher: Freedom ArchivesCollection: Freedom Archives Productions
30 Years After the Attica Rebellion:
A 29-minute radio documentary about the origins of the
modern anti-prison movement
BC Master for portion of Prisons on Fire CD
September, 2001 marks the 30th anniversary of the Attica Rebellion in New York. This massive prison takeover by hundreds of inmates and the callous repression and murders by the state of New York are part of a unique moment in US history.
Who were the Attica Brothers?
Why did they seize control of the prison?
What makes Attica important to the anti-prison movement today?
Featuring historical materials from the Freedom Archives. Voices include:
Frank 'Big Black' Smith, Attica Brother and prison activist
L.D. Barkley, Attica Brother killed during the re-taking of the prison
Elizabeth Fink, attorney for the Attica Brothers
Michael Deutsch, attorney for the Attica Brothers
Historical recordings in Attica prison during the rebellion and the bloody retaking of the prison
Knowing what happened in the early 1970s prison movement is essential for youth, communities of color and progressives to effectively confront today's unprecedented prison growth. We bring you this history through the voices of the people who were there - taking young people back to a time filled with lessons for today and tomorrow.
Akinyele Umoja COINTELPRO 101 Extra Footage
Call Number: C 10 136Collection: COINTELPRO 101 Raw Materials
Educator and activist - worked with the New Afrikan Independence Movement and founding member of New Afrikan Peoples Organization and the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement.
Muhammad Ahmad COINTELPRO 101 Extra Footage
Call Number: C 10 135Collection: COINTELPRO 101 Raw Materials
Muhammad Ahmad (formerly Max Stanford Jr.) was a pivotal figure within the Black Liberation Movement and struggle for Black Power in the 1960s and 70s; notably, he was the national field chairman of the Revolutionary Action Movement (RAM) and a direct target of J. Edgar Hoover's COINTELPRO. He is a professor at Temple University.
Priscilla Falcon COINTELPRO 101 Extra Footage
Call Number: C 10 134Collection: COINTELPRO 101 Raw Materials
Priscilla Falcon is a Chicana activist and professor of Hispanic studies at the University of Northern Colorado. She is the widow of Chicano activist Ricardo Falcon, who was killed in a racially motivated altercation with a gas station attendant in Oro Grande, N.M. in 1972 en route to the La Raza Unida convention in El Paso.
She is a lifelong activist for Chican@ and Mexican@ rights.
Ricardo Romero COINTELPRO 101 Extra Footage
Call Number: C 10 133Collection: COINTELPRO 101 Raw Materials
Ricardo Romero is a Chicano activist for immigrants rights who, in 1981, refused to testify before a Grand Jury, along with other activists, to provide information on the activities of political activist organizations. He is a lifelong activist for Chican@-Mexican@ liberation.
Roxanne Dunbar Ortiz COINTELPRO 101 Extra Footage
Call Number: C 10 132Collection: COINTELPRO 101 Raw Materials
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz grew up in rural Oklahoma, daughter of a landless farmer and half-Indian mother. Her paternal grandfather, a white settler, farmer, and veterinarian, had been a labor activist and Socialist in Oklahoma with the Industrial Workers of the World in the first two decades of the twentieth century. The stories of her grandfather inspired her to lifelong social justice activism.
From 1967 to 1972, she was a full time activist living in various parts of the United States, traveling to Europe, Mexico, and Cuba.
In 1974, she became active in the American Indian Movement (AIM) and the International Indian Treaty Council, beginning a lifelong commitment to international human rights.
Ward Churchill COINTELPRO 101 Extra Footage
Call Number: C 10 131Collection: COINTELPRO 101 Raw Materials
Ward Churchill is a prolific American Indian scholar/activist, Ward Churchill is a founding member of the Rainbow Council of Elders, and longtime member of the leadership council of the American Indian Movement of Colorado.
In addition to his numerous works on Indigenous history, he has written extensively on U.S. foreign policy and the repression of political dissent, including the FBI’s COINTELPRO operations against the Black Panther Party and the American Indian Movement.
Kathleen Cleaver COINTELPRO 101 Extra Footage
Call Number: C 10 130Collection: COINTELPRO 101 Raw Materials
Kathleen Cleaver became involved in the civil rights movement. In 1967 she left college to work full-time for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). The following year she met Eldridge Cleaver and moved from New York to San Francisco to join the Black Panther Party (BPP).
Kathleen Cleaver became the BPP's National Communications Secretary and helped to organize the campaign to get Huey Newton released from prison. She was also the first woman to be appointed to the Black Panthers Central Committee.
Kathleen continues to struggle for civil and human rights and teaches law at Emory University.
