African Americans--Civil rights--History
PRA Archive # | Title | Description | Genre | Broadcast Date |
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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: |
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 |