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![Life of the Manong: Henry Hipolito in Portsmouth Square](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Date: 6/8/1977Call Number: CD 476Producers: Al RoblesCollection: Compact discs and videos representing digitized copies of analog tapes
Manong Henry Hipolito talks with Al Robles about the old days in Manilatown. Henry speaks of the Manilatown area from Market to Broadway being the section symbolizing the common poor Filipino. Although the I-hotel area was run down during the interview (late 70s), it used to be a nice area bustling with streetcars and horse drawn wagons. When speaking of the area in the late 70s, the I-Hotel and its few old timers represent the last of Manilatown. Some of Henry's experiences of the old days were that there were no pinays in America till 1948 and local job discrimination forced him to travel to Alaska for seasonal fishing jobs. He reminisces about Pinoy town in Alaska and how he survived the depression. Ending the interview, Henry gives advice to new Filipino immigrants such as get more education, get more independence, make more progress against poverty and discrimination, and don't be corrupt.
![Simeon Amon](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Date: 7/6/1977Call Number: CD 482Format: CDProducers: Al RoblesCollection: Compact discs and videos representing digitized copies of analog tapes
Simeon Amon talks about women and his life as a child in the islands. He explains social gatherings called "Taxi Dances". This was for lonely manongs who could dance with women for a small fee. Due to miscegenation laws, suitable Pinays of there age and generation didn't exist in the states. It also gave women an opportunity for extra income. Simeon said he attended many dances in the Stockton area and San Francisco. With many of these girls being white, some disapproved the events. A Filipino man dating a white woman resulted in him being shot and her being beat up. Simeon then goes into explaining the virtues of city pinays versus country pinays. The interview ends with him explaining his childhood life on a Luzon farm.
![Life of the Manong: Henry Hipolito in Portsmouth Square](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Date: 6/8/1977Call Number: IH 051Producers: Al RoblesCollection: The International Hotel struggle and the Filipino community
Manong Henry Hipolito talks with Al Robles about the old days in Manilatown. Henry speaks of the Manilatown area from Market to Broadway being the section symbolizing the common poor Filipino. Although the I-hotel area was run down during the interview (late 70s), it used to be a nice area bustling with streetcars and horse drawn wagons. When speaking of the area in the late 70s, the I-Hotel and its few old timers represent the last of Manilatown. Some of Henry's experiences of the old days were that there were no pinays in America till 1948 and local job discrimination forced him to travel to Alaska for seasonal fishing jobs. He reminisces about Pinoy town in Alaska and how he survived the depression. Ending the interview, Henry gives advice to new Filipino immigrants such as the importance of education, independence, poverty and discrimination reduction, and resist corruption.
![Simeon Amon Interview](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Date: 7/6/1977Call Number: IH 057Format: CDProducers: Al RoblesCollection: The International Hotel struggle and the Filipino community
Simeon Amon talks about women and his life as a child in the islands. He explains social gatherings called "Taxi Dances". This was for lonely manongs who could dance with women for a small fee. Due to miscegenation laws, suitable Pinays of there age and generation didn't exist in the states. It also gave women an opportunity for extra income. Simeon said he attended many dances in the Stockton area and San Francisco. With many of these girls being white, some disapproved the events. A Filipino man dating a white woman resulted in him being shot and her being beat up. Simeon then goes into explaining the virtues of city pinays versus country pinays. The interview ends with him explaining his childhood life on a Luzon farm.
![June Jordan Poetry reading](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
June Jordan reads her poems about Black women's struggles, love, rape, and male authority. She dedicates one poem to Fannie Lou Hammer. The audience asks her questions about her work.
![Fidel Castro Interview](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
In an interview conducted by Barbara Walters, Fidel Castro speaks about the CIA, different U.S. presidents, intellectual freedoms, political prisoners, US-Cuban relations, Soviet-Cuban relations, and Cuba's role in Africa. Walters also asks him several questions about his personal life.
![Puerto Rico: Oscar Collazo (3 of 3)](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Discusses Collazo's joining of the Cadets, chance for independence during WW II. tells about his first meeting with Lolita Lebron and discuss other Puerto Rican women independence fighters. Discuss conditions in NYC as compared to Puerto Rico.
![Real Dragon](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Date: 3/16/1977Call Number: RD 069Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Lincoln Bergman, Claude Marks, Frances EmleyProgram: Real DragonCollection: “The Real Dragon” a news magazine including music and poetry
Series of inserts that were used in an early 1977 program. Includes inf0rmation on Leonard Peletier trial, Assata Shakur trial, assasination of Kamal Jumblatt in
Lebanon, Palestine Congress, Zaire political situation.
![Prison Movement Reports](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Date: 1/4/1977Call Number: FI 057Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Barbara Lubinski, Heber Dreher, Mark SchwartzProgram: Freedom Is A Constant StruggleCollection: Freedom is a Constant Struggle
On Jamaica with a quote (not actuality) from Assata Shakur; man speaking of his arrest with one of the San Quentin 6, Willie Tate; an excellent interview with activist Gary Lawton, just acquitted in Riverside.
![Native-American Struggle -2](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Date: 1/8/1977Call Number: FI 058Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Heber DreherProgram: Freedom Is A Constant StruggleCollection: Freedom is a Constant Struggle
Reports on a New Year's 1977 incident at Wounded Knee, Tom Poor Bear wounded; Leonard Peltier brought for trial from Canada, case background. Then very strong speech on Peltier's case, Native and human rights. Strong poem by Denise Oliver/Cherokee.