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The Woman’s Prison at Santa Rita
Date: 8/18/1967Call Number: PM 140Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Elsa Knight ThompsonCollection: Prisons - Women
Bettina Aptheker Kurzweil, who had just finished serving a 45-day sentence in Santa Rita County jail on charges arising out of her FSM activities, talks with Elsa Knight Thompson. This is an in-depth description of the jail’s physical appearance, daily work schedule, food, the ranking system of the police guards and deputies, the medical facilities and their inadequacies, the economic/ethnic composition of the prisoners, the charges made against the women prisoners and how they are often made worse by the court system, the discrepancies between the women and the men’s prisons, how economic factors effect who goes to this jail, the visiting room and its no child under 14 policy, the library, and the rules. Bettina was pregnant during her time in jail which adds an interesting element to her interview. She also talked about “The Cell” which is the jail’s way of arbitrarily punishing prisoners with solitary confinement. “The Cell” means a minimum of ten days in solitary confinement with no maximum amount declared until the deputy decides it is time for the prisoner to be released. This is a wonderful, genuine, interview that should not be missed.
Why I am opposed to the Vietnam War
Date: 4/30/1967Call Number: CD 060Format: CDCollection: Compact discs and videos representing digitized copies of analog tapes
Martin Luther King, JR speaking at Riverside Church in New York about the war in Vietnam, April 30, 1967.
David Alfaro Siqueiros: Voz Viva de Mexico - Part 1
Date: 1/1/1967Call Number: CD 147Format: CDProducers: Universidad Nacional Autonomia de MexicoCollection: Compact discs and videos representing digitized copies of analog tapes
David Siquieros habla del nuevo realismo mexicano. Voz del autor, 1967.
David Alfaro Siqueiros: Voz Viva de Mexico, Part 2
Date: 1/1/1967Call Number: CD 148Format: CDProducers: Universidad Nacional Autonomia de MexicoCollection: Compact discs and videos representing digitized copies of analog tapes
David Siquieros habla del nuevo realismo mexicano. Voz del autor, 1967. En espanol.
Part 2
Julius Lester and H. Rap Brown speak on the Vietnam war and race relations in America
Julius Lester and H. Rap Brown speak at an Anti - Vietnam rally. Julius Lester, the former director of the Newport Folk Festival, SNCC (Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee) photographer, and host of WBAI radio station, speaks about war in Vietnam. He speaks about his recent visit to Vietnam, the weapons used by the US and how they connect to the protests and riots in the US. Next, H. Rap Brown, SNCC National Director, member of the Black Panther Party, speaks about black and white race relations in America, saying that blacks have to the right to defend themselves.
Side B. H. Rap Brown continues speaking about how black society suffers from an inferiority complex and are constantly in danger of being overwhelmed. Brown also speaks about the Vietnam War, how black soldiers are used to further US imperialism and used primarily on the front lines. Lastly, he speaks about American's true political motives in Indochina and the rest of the world.
Julius Lester and H. Rap Brown speak on the Vietnam war and race relations in America
Date: 8/29/1967Call Number: CD 297Format: CDCollection: Compact discs and videos representing digitized copies of analog tapes
Julius Lester and H. Rap Brown speak at an Anti - Vietnam rally. Julius Lester, the former director of the Newport Folk Festival, SNCC (Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee) photographer, and host of WBAI radio station, speaks about war in Vietnam. He speaks about his experiences in Vietnam, the weapons used by the US and about the protests and riots in the US. Next, H. Rap Brown, SNCC National Director, member of the Black Panther Party, and extreme militant, speaks about black and white race relations in America, saying that blacks have to defend themselves.
Side B. H. Rap Brown continues speaking about how white society is overwhelming blacks, and making blacks think they are inferior. Brown also speaks about the Vietnam War, how black soldiers did not get the respect they deserved. He says that American whites are violent - blacks have to be violent because it didn't work to be non-violent. Blacks are not asking for love, just respect. Lastly, he speaks about American's true political motives in Indochina and the rest of the world.
The Other America
Date: 4/14/1967Call Number: V 309Format: DVDProducers: Allan WillisCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
"Martin Luther King, Jr.'s 'White Backlash' speech, THE OTHER AMERICA, is a classic. It reveals King, the intellectual, coolly analyzing the racist basis of the neo-conservative philosophies, that would influence government policies on the right and left, and the bought media opinion of the 1980's. He foresees the rise of Reaganism and the mainstreaming of the Klan, neo-Nazism, and Yuppie solipsism.
It is a chilling troubled speech made with the background of urban riots, pleas for Black Power, and the Vietnam War. Allen Willis's production of this speech, given at Stanford University in 1967, is masterful, and riveting.
Future Historians will regard this as one of the key speeches in the career of the greatest American statesman of the twentieth century." - Ishmael Reed - 1989
Stop the Draft Week
Date: 10/13/1967Call Number: KP 348Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Elsa Knight ThompsonProgram: Open HourCollection: Anti-War
Interview with representatives of four organizations who are planning demonstrations at Oakland draft board. These will be the demonstrations that became known as "Stop the Draft Week" which later led to the case against activists who became known as the Oakland 7 and who were eventually acquitted.
Huey P Newton - Prelude to Revolution
Date: 1/1/1967Call Number: V 368Format: DVDProducers: John EvansCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Filmed prison interviews with Huey P. Newton, leader of the Black Panther Party, imprisoned in 1967 for the manslaughter of a white police officer in Oakland. Newton was freed in 1971 when a California Court of Appeals overturned his conviction. Newton elaborates on his revolutionary politics the Ten Point Platform - called for, Black community self-determination, full employment, decent housing for Black people, an end to police brutality, and "an immediate end to all wars of aggression," meaning the Vietnam War.
Black Power and anti-imperialism - 1 of 3
Date: 11/1/1967Call Number: CD 666Format: CDCollection: Compact discs and videos representing digitized copies of analog tapes
Discussion and debate of anti-war movement, Black power and Black liberation. Public Forum moderated by psychologist and gay pastor Jim Sandmire with Peter Lewis representing the new left and Black Panthers Don Bryant and Sam Napier. Topics include is revolution realistic, race war in the US and international revolutionary movements.
