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Malcolm X: Militant Labor Forum, “Prospects for Freedom in 1965.”
Malcolm X speaks at a Militant Labor Forum and discusses the difference between the Black Muslim movement and the Black Nationalist group, the difference between moral and political protest, the labeling of extremists as monsters and also looks to examples of black freedom fighters in Africa as models for African Americans demanding equal rights.
There are editorialized interruptions from the DJ.
Fannie Lou Hamer - part 1
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.
Fannie Lou Hamer - part 2
Date: 9/28/1965Call Number: CE 043Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Colin EdwardsCollection: Colin Edwards Collection
Discusses her life in Mississippi, trying to organize, voting rights. Also describes her attempt to register to vote, arrest & jail - particularly how cops forced other prisoners to beat her under threat of death (they were first made to drink corn whiskey) and despite federal hearings "those same men are still wearing their guns."
Fannie Lou Hamer
Date: 9/28/1965Call Number: CD 699Format: CDProducers: Colin EdwardsCollection: Compact discs and videos representing digitized copies of analog tapes
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.
Discusses her life in Mississippi, trying to organize, voting rights. Also describes her attempt to register to vote, arrest & jail - particularly how cops forced other prisoners to beat her under threat of death (they were first made to drink corn whiskey) and despite federal hearings "those same men are still wearing their guns."
Selma Support Rally - San Francisco
Date: 3/10/1965Call Number: CE 065Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Colin EdwardsCollection: Colin Edwards Collection
St Patrick's Day rally at the Federal Building to "Stop the Bloodbath" in Selma. This period saw numerous rallies in solidarity with marches in Alabama as well as demonstrations sending people to participate.
Interview - Horace Cayton, Arna Bontemps, and LeRoi Jones
Date: 1/1/1965Call Number: CE 119Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Colin EdwardsCollection: Colin Edwards Collection
Discussion on the "Negro Identity" - writers discuss social divisions within the Black community and how these difference are being overcome in the wake of artistic rebellion. Includes separate interview with Bontemps on the emergence of Negroes in mainstream entertainment and communications media.
Interview - Horace Cayton, Arna Bontemps, and LeRoi Jones - Part 1
Date: 1/1/1965Call Number: CE 120Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Colin EdwardsCollection: Colin Edwards Collection
Discussion on the "Negro Identity" - writers discuss social divisions within the Black community and how these difference are being overcome in the wake of artistic rebellion.
Interview - Horace Cayton, Arna Bontemps, and LeRoi Jones - Part 2 and 3
Date: 1/1/1965Call Number: CE 121Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Colin EdwardsCollection: Colin Edwards Collection
Discussion on the "Negro Identity" - writers discuss social divisions within the Black community and how these difference are being overcome in the wake of artistic rebellion.
Letters From Mississippi
Date: 1/1/1965Call Number: CE 123Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Colin EdwardsCollection: Colin Edwards Collection
Interviews with white Northern activists who participated in the Civil Rights movement in Mississippi during 1964, including the Freedom Summer.
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