African Americans--Civil rights--History

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PRA Archive #	Title	Description	Genre	Broadcast Date
BB1071	What the Negro writer is not saying / Nat Hentoff.	Jazz critic and author Nat Hentoff speaks on the contradictions in American Black writing. At...		KPFA, 22 Sept. 1964.
BB1070	The Negro writer in America	On the second day of the Negro writers' conference held at Asilomar, KPFA reporters Kenneth...		KPFA, 6 Aug. 1964.
BB0921	Lena Horne / interviewed by Gene De Alessi.	"Lena: a sound portrait of a multifaceted lady." Lena Horne (b. June 30, 1917; d. May...	American Women -- Music and musicians	KPFA, 12 Apr. 1966.
BB0900	The tradition of Negro writing	Talk by Saunders Redding on the history of Black literature from caricature to protest to...		KPFA, 21 Sept. 1964.
BB0899	The writer in contemporary American society	Talk by Harvey Swados on the role of Black authors in American society given at "The Negro...		KPFA, 27 Sept. 1964.
BB0898	Ideological forces in the work of Negro writers	Horace Cayton delivers a talk on the influence of Marxism, psychoanalysis, Negritude, and...		KPFA, 15 Aug. 1964.
BB0897	The New equality	Late in the evening of the second day of the Asilomar conference, Al Silbowitz moderated this...		KPFA, 6 Aug. 1964.
BB0896	An organ for protest : the Negro press	Hoyt Fuller of the Negro Digest, Louise Meriwether of the Los Angeles Sentinel, Bettye Hughes of...		KPFA, 8 Aug. 1964.
BB0884	The Wonderful world of law and order	Actor-playwright Ossie Davis at the conference "The Negro writer in the United States,... , "The Negro writer in the United States" was a five-day seminar hosted by the...		KPFA, 1964-10-01
BB0882	Symposium on Richard Wright	Herbert Hill, Horace Cayton, Arna Bontemps, and Saunders Redding, who all knew Richard Wright...		KPFA, 20 Jan. 1965. First KPFA broadcast 1964-09-28.
BB0873	After the murder of four children	After the bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama on September 15, 1963...		KPFA, 10 Nov. 1963.
BB0838	Baldwin at the Masonic Temple	James Baldwin delivering one of the talks, on his hopes and plans for changing the modern world...		KPFA, 11 June 1963.
BB0836B	Memorial for Lady Day (Part 2 of 2)	Pauline Jones reads from Billie Holiday's autobiography, with recorded songs by Holiday...		KPFA, 17 July 1963.
BB0836A	Memorial for Lady Day (Part 1 of 2)	Pauline Jones reads from Billie Holiday's autobiography, with recorded songs by Holiday...		KPFA, 17 July 1963.
BB0826	Ralph Gleason interviewing Dick Gregory	Humorist and writer Dick Gregory discusses his participation in the Civil Rights movement. Ralph...		KPFA, 23 June 1963.
BB0720	Stokely Carmichael interview	Discussion with Stokely Carmichael of the Civil Rights movement and the growing participation of...		KPFA, 21 Apr. 1966.
BB0718B	The articulators of the Negro revolt (Part 2 of 2)	Part two of a documentary prepared for the CBC (Canada) and ABC (Australia) by Colin D. Edwards...		KPFA, 14 Apr. 1965.
BB0718A	The articulators of the Negro revolt (Part 1 of 2)	Part one of a documentary prepared for the CBC (Canada) and ABC (Australia) by Colin D. Edwards...		KPFA, 14 Apr. 1965.
BB0641	Living and growing in a white world	The author of Fire next time speaks to the students of Castlemont High School, a...		KPFA, 23 June 1963.
BB0637	100 years of freedom / James Baldwin.	James Baldwin gives a talk at the University of California at Berkeley on the fight for Black...		KPFA, 17 May 1963.
BB0632	A conversation with James Baldwin	Elsa Knight Thompson and John Leonard, Director of literature and drama, talk with the author of...		KPFA, 6 June 1963.
BB0572	Commentary on Negro delinquents	Talk on the problems facing Black youths. , Previously listed as BB0572.03		KPFA, 6 Dec. 1962.
BB0566	Commentary of a Black Southern busrider / Rosa Parks	Discussion of Rosa Park's refusal to give up her seat to a white man and the resulting bus...		KPFA, 20 Dec. 1962.
BB0534	Paul Robeson : world citizen / interviewed by Elsa Knight Thompson and Harold Winkler.	Paul Robeson, noted actor and political activist, relates his personal history and views in this...		KPFA, 8 Feb. 1958. First in KPFA Folio, 1958-03-06.
BB0520.05	Gandhi invades the South / Edward Keating, Ira Sandperl, and Roy Kepler.	The panel discusses the use of nonviolence by Southern Blacks in the Civil Rights movement. This...		KPFA, 13 Oct. 1965.
BB0509	Race, class, and politics	C. Wilson Record, professor of sociology at Sacramento State College and race relations...		KPFA, 5 Sept. 1964.
BB0505	Memorial service for James Chaney	Actuality of a service for a slain civil rights worker, James Chaney, held in his home town in...		KPFA, 28 Aug. 1964.
BB0482	Philistinism and the Negro writer	Poet and playwright LeRoi Jones (a.k.a. Amiri Baraka) delivers a speech at the Negro Writers...		KPFA, 7 Aug. 1964. First KPFA broadcast 1964-09-30
BB0473	Quotas for negroes: insult or compensation? (Episode 7)	This is a recording of one of six panel discussions held at the Center for the Study of...		KPFA, 19 Mar. 1964.
BB0472	Affirmative discrimination : jobs (Episode 6)	Conclusion of a discussion between Edwin E. Dunaway and the staff of the Center for the Study of...		KPFA, 5 Mar. 1964.
BB0471	Affirmative discrimination : schools (Episode 5)	Edwin E. Dunaway, former Supreme Court Justice of the state of Arkansas, leads a staff...		KPFA, 27 Feb. 1964.
BB0469	The Courts : correlations and contradictions	This is a recording of San Francisco attorney Howard Nemerovski in a studio recording of a talk...		KPFA, 21 Aug. 1964.
BB0467	The Civil rights lawyer in the South	Thom Hurwitz interviews three lawyers who work for the NAACP National Legal Defense and...		WBAI, 27 Aug. 1964.
BB0466	The San Francisco human rights march	This is a recording of the speeches given at a rally of 35,000 people at the Republican National...		KPFA, 13 July 1964.
BB0460	The Garner case (Episode 4, Part 3 of 3)	This is the third and concluding episode on the Garner vs. Louisiana case, and the fourth of 13...		KPFA, 23 Jan. 1964. First in KPFA Folio 1964-02-18
BB0451	Introduction to the Garner case (Episode 2, Part 1 of 3)	This recording features Harry Kalven, Jr., of the University of Chicago Law School, and a panel... , Sound quality is poor and fluctuates wildly for the first five minutes of the recording.		KPFA, 16 Feb. 1964.
BB0440.07	The Image of America and the Negro abroad	St. Clair Drake, professor of sociology and head of the department of African Affairs at...		KPFA, 6 Sept. 1964.
BB0440.06	Race: an absurd classification	This is a recording of William McCord, associate professor of sociology at Stanford University,...		KPFA, 23 Aug. 1964.
BB0440.05	Social consequences of discrimination	Historian and author Peter I. Rose delivers a talk on the social turmoil caused by...		KPFA, 16 Aug. 1964.
BB0440.04	Emerging patterns of discrimination	Leon Litwack is a historian, associate professor of history at University of Wisconsin, author...		KPFA, 9 Aug. 1964.
BB0440.03B	The first emancipation (Part 2 of 2)	The KPFA programmers once again found themselves with time left in their allotted slot after...		KPFA, 6 Aug. 1964.
BB0440.03A	The first emancipation (Part 1 of 2)	Stanley Elkins, associate professor of history at Smith College and the author of “The First...		KPFA, 6 Aug. 1964.
BB0440.02	Africa and the new identity	Harold Isaacs, Senior Research Associate at the Center for International Studies at MIT,...		KPFA, 2 Aug. 1964.
BB0440.01B	Early civil rights movement: a mid-century inventory (Part 2 of 2)	The KPFA programmers found themselves with time left in their allotted slot after John Hope...		KPFA, 28 Jul. 1964
BB0440.01A	Early civil rights movement: a mid-century inventory (Part 1 of 2)	The first in a series of ten lectures delivered by distinguished professors from around the...		KPFA, 28 July 1964. KPFA Folio lists 30 July 1964.
BB0416	Louis Lomax in San Francisco	Louis E. Lomax addresses a rally in San Francisco in late August 1963 of the United San...		KPFA, 20 Aug. 1963.
BB0392	Beyond the Black metropolis	Sociologist and author Horace Cayton interviewed by Jack Nessel. Discussion of the status of...		KPFA, 4 Nov. 1963. Repeat of original broadcast on 28 Oct. 1963.
BB0388	Reverend Wyatt T. Walker	This is a three-part program on Administrative director of the Southern Christian Leadership... , KPFA allowed for several "open hours" in their schedule every month, which they...		KPFA, 28 May 1963.
BB0358	Report from the south - James Bevel	In the summer of 1963, KPFA, KPFK, and WBAI scheduled regular hours for news updates "from...		KPFA, 14 Aug. 1963
BB0351	Martin Luther King, Jr. letter from a Birmingham jail	The Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr.’s statement of April 16, 1963, addressed to his “fellow...		KPFA, 16 July 1963. First broadcast 1963-08-18.
BB0316	Growth of the Black Muslim movement in the U.S. / C. Eric Lincoln.	Scholar and minister C. Eric Lincoln delivers a speech on the growing black nationalist movement...		KPFA, 6 Dec. 1962.
BB0274	Segregation and the law	In this recording, Elsa Knight Thompson and attorney Alex Hoffman interview attorney Len Holt.... , Additional notes from tape box: He tells about how difficult it is for a Black to get a...		KPFA, 17 July 1962.
BB0270	Walk to freedom	A documentary on Albany, Georgia, featuring field recordings made by Guy Carawan and Alan Lomax...		KPFA, 1962-06-22
BB0249	The battle is not yet won	Ronnie Moore is interviewed by Elsa Knight Thompson in this recording. The student activist...		KPFA, 22 Mar. 1962. First Folio mention April 30, 1962.
BB0244B	An interview with Robert Williams (Part 2)	Part two of Marc Schleifer's interview with Robert Williams conducted in Cuba in March 1962...		KPFA, 4 July 1962.
BB0244A	An interview with Robert Williams (Part 1)	Part one of Robert Williams being interviewed by Marc Schleifer in Cuba in March 1962. Williams...		KPFA, 4 July 1962.
BB0235	Race rebuilding and the renewal of life	Architect and Architectural Forum editor Allan Temko discusses desegregated and affordable...		KPFA, 21 Apr. 1962.
BB0225	Children of McComb	A talk with Thomas Hayden and Robert Zellner (field secretaries of the Student Nonviolent...		KPFA, 12 Feb. 1962.
BB0215B	Special program commemorating Negro History Week (Part 2 of 2)	Special program in honor of Negro History Week produced by Elsa Knight Thompson and Mike Tigar....		KPFA, 16 Feb. 1962
BB0215A	Special program commemorating Negro History Week (Part 1 of 2)	Special program in honor of Negro History Week produced by Elsa Knight Thompson and Mike Tigar....		KPFA, 16 Feb. 1962
BB0210	Kidnapping in North Carolina	A rebroadcast of Elsa Knight Thompson's and Mike Tigar's Eleventh Hour interview [May...		KPFA, 4 May 1962.
BB0209	Negro-white relations in the United States (Episode 1 of 4)	Part one of a four-part series wherein the producers present material from the Pacifica Archives...		KPFA, 22 May 1962.
BB0196	Let's all join the fight for freedom	Reverend Ralph Abernathy, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference leader who rose to...		KPFA, 9 June 1962.
BB0170	How to be sane though negro	San Francisco State semanticist (not African American) Dr. S. I. Hayakawa discusses the problem...		KPFA, 23 Feb. 1958. First broadcast August 9, 1956.
BB0158	My poetry, my life	Langston Hughes speaks to a live audience, interspersing stories from his life, including his...		KPFA, 24 Jan. 1959.
BB0119	The Negro lawyer in the South	James R. Walker, Jr. of the North Carolina Bar speaks before the session devoted to the lawyer...		KPFA, 14 Oct. 1960.
BB0118	Lunch counters and jails	W. H. Larkin, a member of the Congress of Racial Equality discusses the reasons for and...		KPFA, 3 June 1960.
BB0117	The sit-ins and the New South	Priscilla Stephens, winner of the Gandhi Award from the National Congress of Racial Equality...		KPFA, 12 Sept. 1960.
BB0116	The unions and discrimination	This is a recording of the floor debate at the 1959 National AFL-CIO convention regarding a...		KPFA, 31 Oct. 1959.
BB0115	On the power of peaceful persuasion speech by Martin Luther King Jr.	Speech by Martin Luther King, Jr. on the use of nonviolence in the civil rights movement...		KPFA, 1 Aug. 1957.
BB0060	The long road / Frank Wilkinson interviewed by Elsa Knight Thompson	Civil rights leader tells about his life and work. KPFA Folio note, April 10-23, 1961, p...		KPFA, 12 Apr. 1961.
AZ1025	Herbert Marcuse and Angela Davis at Berkeley	Excerpt from a rally at University of California Berkeley featuring speeches by philosopher and...	American Women -- Activists, American Women -- Women of Color and discrimination	1969?.
AZ0138	Ben Chavis and the Wilmington 10 / Elizabeth Chavis and Helen Othow interviewed by Angela Davis	Angela Davis interviews Mrs. Elizabeth Chavis and Dr. Helen Othow, the mother and sister of the...	American Women -- Women of Color and discrimination	KPFA, November 28, 1977
AZ0090	Ben Hooks interview / produced by Fruit Punch Collective.	Benjamin Hooks, head of the NAACP and first African-American FCC commissioner, is interviewed by...		KPFA, Apr. 1977.
AZ0074B	Nine years later: a Black panel on racism and civil rights since the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. part 2	Large panel discussion on the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Dr. King Jr.'s...		KPFA, 4 Apr. 1977
AZ0074A	Nine years later: a Black panel on racism and civil rights since the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. part 1	Large panel discussion on the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Dr. King Jr.'s...		KPFA, 4 Apr. 1977

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