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Materials shot and gathered for the making of “Legacy of Torture”

Documents

Legacy of Torture - DVD Master Legacy of Torture - DVD Master
Date: 11/18/2006Call Number: M 030Format: DVDCollection: Materials shot and gathered for the making of “Legacy of Torture”
Events that led to the San Francisco 8 Case - Grand Jury Resistance and the legacy of the Black Panther Party.
Legacy of Torture - Audio Only Legacy of Torture - Audio Only
Date: 11/18/2006Call Number: M 031Format: CDCollection: Materials shot and gathered for the making of “Legacy of Torture”
Events that led to the San Francisco 8 Case - Grand Jury Resistance and the legacy of the Black Panther Party.
Legacy of Torture - PAL Master Legacy of Torture - PAL Master
Date: 11/18/2006Call Number: M 032Format: DVDCollection: Materials shot and gathered for the making of “Legacy of Torture”
Events that led to the San Francisco 8 Case - Grand Jury Resistance and the legacy of the Black Panther Party.
Legacy of Torture - Film Poster Graphics Legacy of Torture - Film Poster Graphics
Date: 11/18/2006Call Number: M 033Format: CDCollection: Materials shot and gathered for the making of “Legacy of Torture”
Events that led to the San Francisco 8 Case - Grand Jury Resistance and the legacy of the Black Panther Party.
All Power To The People Part 2 All Power To The People Part 2
Date: 1/1/1996Call Number: LT 022Format: Mini DVProducers: Lee Lew LeeCollection: Materials shot and gathered for the making of “Legacy of Torture”
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 The party struck fear in the hearts of the "establishment" which viewed it as a terrorist group. Interviews with former US Attorney General Ramsey Clark, CIA officer Philip Agee, and FBI agents Wes Swearingen and Bill Turner shockingly detail a "secret domestic war" of assassination, imprisonment and torture as the weapons of repression. Yet, the documentary is not a paean to the Panthers, for while it praises their early courage and moral idealism. it exposes their collapse due to megalomania, corruption, drugs, and narcissism
SF 8 after Grand Jury Release SF 8 after Grand Jury Release
Date: 9/23/2007Call Number: LT 042Format: Mini DVCollection: Materials shot and gathered for the making of “Legacy of Torture”
Appearance of several San Francisco 8 members after their release by a State Grand Jury. Update by Attorney Soffiyah Elijah in front of SF Court building 9/24/2007.
SF 8 after Grand Jury Release SF 8 after Grand Jury Release
Date: 9/23/2007Call Number: LT 043Format: DVDCollection: Materials shot and gathered for the making of “Legacy of Torture”
Appearance of several San Francisco 8 members after their release by a State Grand Jury. Update by Attorney Soffiyah Elijah in front of SF Court building 9/24/2007.
SF 8 after Grand Jury Release SF 8 after Grand Jury Release
Date: 9/23/2007Call Number: LT 044Format: DVDCollection: Materials shot and gathered for the making of “Legacy of Torture”
Appearance of several San Francisco 8 members after their release by a State Grand Jury. Update by Attorney Soffiyah Elijah in front of SF Court building 9/24/2007.