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4 Little Girls - The Story of Four Girls Who Paid the Price for a Nation's Ignorance
Date: 1/1/1997Call Number: V 222Format: DVDProducers: Spike LeeCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Recounts the people and events leading up to the one of the most despicable hate-crimes during the height of the civil-rights movement, the bombing of the 16th Street Church in Birmingham, Alabama. In that attack, four little African-American girls lost their lives and a nation was simultaneously revolted, angered and galvanized to push the fight for equality and justice on.
Mumia Abu Jamal mass meeting
Rally held at Mission High School in San Francisco to commemorate the release of Geronimo ji Jaga Pratt and to demand the release of Mumia Abu Jamal. This is the opening of rally (continued on PM 353). Speakers on this part include Cristina Vasquez, Ron Kovic, and Alice Walker.
Voices of the Civil Rights Movement: Black American Freedom Songs 1960-1966
Date: 1/21/1997Call Number: CD 661Format: CDProducers: Smithsonian FolkwaysCollection: Compact discs and videos representing digitized copies of analog tapes
Documents the importance of songs in the Civil Rights Movement. Teachers covering this tumultuous time in American History in their class can certainly give students a better sense for the time by not only showing videos of the peaceful demonstrations and police brutality, but by playing them some of the songs from this album. Many of these freedom songs were recorded live in mass meetings held in churches. These are not just spirituals and gospel songs, but draw upon rhythm and blues, football chants, blues, and calypso for their beauty and energy. The first disc features songs from mass meetings, where a singer or core of singers leads the people in the singing of the songs, while the second focuses on ensemble works by the SNCC Freedom Singers and other groups. The accompanying booklet written by Bernice Johnson Reagon combines historic photographs with insights into each song, providing an excellent education in the meaning of the music. Reagon not only explains how these songs were song, but also which songs were prominent for the Selma-to-Montgomery March ("Governor Wallace"), "Freedom Train" for the vigil for the Mississippi Democratic Party elections. 2 CDs
National People’s Congress - Attica Event
Includes an update on Leonard Peltier by the National People’s Congress, the American Indian Movement and the Bring Peltier Home Committee.
Keynote address is by Geronimo Ji Jaga, just released from prison three months previously. He recounts his own conditions and experiences in prison, how much of his own education was facilitated by his cellmates and the importance of education in the revolutionary struggle. He talks about creating the prison lawyers manual and assisting fellow comrades in filing suits and knowing and understanding prisoners’ rights. Geronimo also focuses on the importance of using international law to validate revolutionary activity, framing the struggle in an international lens and the necessity of continuing to approach the United Nations. Ji Jaga touches on solidarity and explains to the audience that all races can be comrades in the struggle… furthermore detailing how adept the “powers that be” are in creating fictitious organizations that perpetuate divisions. Finally, Geronimo speaks on the essential role that women have played in the struggle and gives updates on the status of various political prisoners being held around the United States.
All Power to the People - Part 1, Tape A
Date: 1/1/1997Call Number: C 10 046Format: DV CamProducers: Lee Lew LeeCollection: COINTELPRO 101 Raw Materials
Opening with a montage of four hundred years of race injustice in America, this powerful documentary provides the historical context for the establishment of the 60's civil rights movement. Rare clips of Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, Fred Hampton and other activists transport one back to those tumultuous times. Organized by Bobby Seale and Huey P. Newton, the Black Panther Party embodied every major element of the civil rights movement which preceded it and inspired the black, brown, yellow, Native American and women's power movements which followed
All Power to the People - Parts 1 & 2, Tape B
Date: 1/1/1997Call Number: C 10 047Format: DV CamProducers: Lee Lew LeeCollection: COINTELPRO 101 Raw Materials
Opening with a montage of four hundred years of race injustice in America, this powerful documentary provides the historical context for the establishment of the 60's civil rights movement. Rare clips of Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, Fred Hampton and other activists transport one back to those tumultuous times. Organized by Bobby Seale and Huey P. Newton, the Black Panther Party embodied every major element of the civil rights movement which preceded it and inspired the black, brown, yellow, Native American and women's power movements which followed
All Power to the People - Part 2, Tape C
Date: 1/1/1997Call Number: C 10 048Format: DV CamProducers: Lee Lew LeeCollection: COINTELPRO 101 Raw Materials
Opening with a montage of four hundred years of race injustice in America, this powerful documentary provides the historical context for the establishment of the 60's civil rights movement. Rare clips of Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, Fred Hampton and other activists transport one back to those tumultuous times. Organized by Bobby Seale and Huey P. Newton, the Black Panther Party embodied every major element of the civil rights movement which preceded it and inspired the black, brown, yellow, Native American and women's power movements which followed
All Power to the People - Part 1
Date: 1/1/1997Call Number: C 10 049Format: Beta SPProducers: Lee Lew LeeCollection: COINTELPRO 101 Raw Materials
Opening with a montage of 400 years of race injustice in America, this powerful documentary provides the historical context for the 1960s civil rights movement. Rare clips of Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, Fred Hampton and other activists transport one back to those tumultuous times. Organized by Bobby Seale and Huey P. Newton, the Black Panther Party embodied every major element of the civil rights movement which preceded it and inspired the black, brown, yellow, Native American and women's power movements which followed
All Power to the People - Part 2
Date: 1/1/1997Call Number: C 10 050Format: Beta SPProducers: Lee Lew LeeCollection: COINTELPRO 101 Raw Materials
Opening with a montage of four hundred years of race injustice in America, this powerful documentary provides the historical context for the establishment of the 60's civil rights movement. Rare clips of Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, Fred Hampton and other activists transport one back to those tumultuous times. Organized by Bobby Seale and Huey P. Newton, the Black Panther Party embodied every major element of the civil rights movement which preceded it and inspired the black, brown, yellow, Native American and women's power movements which followed
All Power to the People
Date: 1/1/1997Call Number: C 10 066Format: DVDProducers: Lee Lew LeeCollection: COINTELPRO 101 Raw Materials
Opening with a montage of 400 years of race injustice in America, this powerful documentary provides the historical context for the 1960s civil rights movement. Rare clips of Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, Fred Hampton and other activists transport one back to those tumultuous times. Organized by Bobby Seale and Huey P. Newton, the Black Panther Party embodied every major element of the civil rights movement which preceded it and inspired the black, brown, yellow, Native American and women's power movements which followed
