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Eyes of the Rainbow Documentary Screening

Year: 1988Format: FlyerCollection: Assata Shakur

Flyer for a screening of Eyes of the Rainbow at the Alice Art Theater

Soulbook #7: the quarterly journal of revolutionary Afroamerica

Publisher: SoulbookYear: 1967Volume Number: Vol. 2-3 Summer-FallFormat: PeriodicalCollection: Soulbook

Table of Contents: On Vietnam; For Black Guerillas; The Propaganda Detachment of the Vietnamese Liberation Army; On Centralization; Reject Notes (Poetry); A Prison Diary; Fanonian Ideology and the Peasantry; Other Versions; Cuba: The Untold Story, Part 1.

Ahmed Obafemi: Dedicated New Afrikan Grassroots Organizer

Publisher: New Afrikan InstituteFormat: FlyerCollection: New Afrika

Includes biographical sketch.

Maya Angelou reads "Harriet Tubman"

Publisher: Freedom ArchivesCollection: Black Liberation

Excerpt of Maya Angelou reading "Harriet Tubman" by Margaret Walker at at 1972 benefit for Angela Davis.

Martin Luther King Jr. "Something is happening in our world"

Collection: Martin Luther King Jr.

Excerpt from "I've been to the Mountaintop" speech. This speech was given April 3, 1968, at Mason Temple, Church of God in Christ Headquarters, in Memphis, Tennessee shortly before Rev. King was assassinated.

Judge Bruce Wright Speaks

Publisher: Committee to End the Marion LockdownCollection: Committee to End the Marion Lockdown

In a speech given on November 4th 1989, Judge Bruce Wright talks about the legacy of racism in the courts. He specifically focuses on how the US Supreme Court has served as a historical ally of institutional racism in the United States.

The Black Voice

Publisher: United Black WorkersYear: 1976Volume Number: Vol. 6-2Format: PeriodicalCollection: Various Black Liberation Movement Publications

Soulbook #10: the quarterly journal of revolutionary Afroamerica

Publisher: SoulbookYear: 1975Volume Number: Vol. 3-2Format: PeriodicalCollection: Soulbook

Table of Contents: Black Street Nationalism; Self-Determination and African National Liberation; Ethiopian Womens Position Paper on the National Question; The Movement and the Black Drug Problem; Reject Notes (Poetry); To All Pan African Peoples of the World; Interview with Eusi Kwayana; Why I Refuse to Attend the 6th P.A.C.; African Descendants Law Students at Disneyland.