Colin Edwards Collection
The Freedom
Archives is
honored to contain hundreds of programs on many topics produced by
Colin
Edwards. Colin Edwards (1924–1994) was an outstanding internationalist
journalist and writer who created a huge body of work. Colin came from
Wales
and was a fervent Welsh nationalist. Following service in WW II, he became a combat correspondent in Malaya, then in
Burma, Indochina
and Korea. Later, as an independent journalist with Canadian Broadcasting, the BBC and Pacifica Radio among others. He
did important on-the-scene interviews and documentaries on
anti-imperialist national
liberation struggles in the Middle East, especially Palestine, on Asia,
particularly Vietnam, and on many other struggles, including the civil
rights, Black
Power, and student antiwar movements in the US. Edwards also worked
closely with Moshe Menuhin—a prominent Jewish anti-Zionist (and the
father of
world-famous violinist Yehudi Menuhin).
The interviews with Moshe Menuhin are in the Archives collection, as is
all of the audio work of Colin Edwards, with the exception of
interviews and
writings on Welsh poet Dylan Thomas, which reside in the National
Library of
Wales. The collection was
entrusted to the Freedom Archives by Mary Edwards, his widow, who lives
in
Oakland.
Documents
![Interview with Stokely Carmichael - Part 1](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Date: 10/29/1966Call Number: CE 044Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Colin EdwardsCollection: Colin Edwards Collection
Colin Edwards interviews Carmichael in the SF offices of the Movement Newspaper (Friends of SNCC). In depth about his political development, involvement with SNCC, relationship between white militants and Black Liberation Movement, demands for Black Power, and support for Vietnam's national liberation.
![Interview with Stokely Carmichael - Part 2](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Date: 10/29/1966Call Number: CE 045Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Colin EdwardsCollection: Colin Edwards Collection
Colin Edwards interviews Carmichael in the SF offices of the Movement Newspaper (Friends of SNCC). In depth about his political development, involvement with SNCC, relationship between white militants and Black Liberation Movement, demands for Black Power, and support for Vietnam's national liberation.
![Lebensborn: Nazis Stealing Children - part 1](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Call Number: CE 022Format: CassetteProgram: Lebensborn: Nazis Stealing ChildrenCollection: Colin Edwards Collection
Radio documentary on Hitler's Lebensborn program, which kidnapped "Aryan" seeming children when Poland and Czechoslovakia etc were invaded, in order to raise a "master race."
![Lebensborn: Nazis Stealing Children - part 2](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Call Number: CE 023Format: CassetteProgram: Lebensborn: Nazis Stealing ChildrenCollection: Colin Edwards Collection
Radio documentary on Hitler's Lebensborn program, which kidnapped "Aryan" seeming children when Poland and Czechoslovakia etc were invaded, in order to raise a "master race."
![Huey Newton - 2nd trial set](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Date: 3/7/1968Call Number: CE 051Format: 1/4 3 3/4 ipsProducers: Colin EdwardsCollection: Colin Edwards Collection
The day a new trial date is set for Huey Newton (May 6, 1968). Interviews at Alameda County Courthouse with Charles Garry, Newton's attorney: with his sister, Leola Carr and fiancee, Laverne Williams who talk about Huey's life and character.
![Huey Newton - 2nd trial set](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Date: 3/7/1968Call Number: CE 052Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Colin EdwardsCollection: Colin Edwards Collection
The day a new trial date is set for Huey Newton (May 6, 1968). Interviews at Alameda County Courthouse with Charles Garry, Newton's attorney: with his sister, Leola Carr and fiancee, Laverne Williams who talk about Huey's life and character.
![Huey Newton Interviewed day that his 2nd trail set](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Date: 3/7/1968Call Number: CE 053Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Colin EdwardsCollection: Colin Edwards Collection
Interviewed by Colin Edwards, Joan Didier (Columnist for Saturday Evening Post), Ray Rogers (LA Times), Eldridge Cleaver (Ramparts Magazine & minister of information of the Black Panther Party), and Attorney Charles Garry. Interview takes place in the detention area of the Alameda County Courthouse.
![Bobby Seale interview](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Date: 7/4/1968Call Number: CE 054Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Colin EdwardsCollection: Colin Edwards Collection
Seale speaks at the Panther National Headquarters about former Panther Larry Powell. Poell, a day after his mysterious release from jail on a robbery charge, has testified before the Senate McClellan Investigative Committee, claiming that the Panthers are involved in extortion. Seale states that Powell had distributed a coloring book (withdrawn by the Party leadership) about targeting police. Seale refers to Safeway Stores in Oakland refusing to contribute food to the breakfas programs and subsequently being leafleted. Seale is asked about statements made by Raymond Johnson (now in Cuba) about racial discrimination, about criticisms of the Panthers by Stokely Carmichael and about the United Front Against Fascism. He says that Eldridge Cleaver is now somewhere in the third world.
![Huey Newton interview](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Date: 8/30/1970Call Number: CE 055Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Colin EdwardsCollection: Colin Edwards Collection
Newton speaks on the politics of the Black Panther Party from inside the Alameda County Jail. Especially significant comments on the Panthers offer to send members to fight with the National Liberation Front of Vietnam against US Imperialism's war; the party is small but has great influence; the US empire will be defeated through developing international solidarity; the BPP is an internationalist party.
Newton also discusses the Soledad Brothers case, George Jackson, the Marin Courthouse Rebellion.
![Fannie Lou Hamer - part 1](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Date: 9/28/1965Call Number: CE 042Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Colin EdwardsCollection: Colin Edwards Collection
Discusses conditions in Mississippi, role of the police & how the federal government won't protect peoples' civil rights. Remembers Chaney, Goodman & Schwerner murders, admires the Deacons for Defense, Malcolm X (who was to have come to Mississippi the day after his assassination). Comments on the Muslim movement, how she doesn't agree with separation, suggests that Martin Luther King and the SCLC were too middle class, is hopeful about youth and the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party.