African Americans–Civil rights–History

  • Memorial for Lady Day (Part 1 of 2)

    Pauline Jones reads from Billie Holiday’s autobiography, with recorded songs by Holiday played throughout the program. The program was created as a memorial to be played on the anniversary of Billie Holiday’s death. In the KPFA Folio, the program was originally described as being read by Henrietta Harris. Part one.

  • Memorial for Lady Day (Part 2 of 2)

    Pauline Jones reads from Billie Holiday’s autobiography, with recorded songs by Holiday played throughout the program. The program was created as a memorial to be played on the anniversary of Billie Holiday’s death. In the KPFA Folio, the program was originally described as being read by Henrietta Harris. Part two.

  • The first emancipation (Part 2 of 2)

    The KPFA programmers once again found themselves with time left in their allotted slot after Stanley Elkins delivered his talk “The First Emancipation,” so Philip Elwood filled that time with 15 minutes of music programming in line with the theme of the seminar. Elwood plays some cuts from a record (probably the Victor album produced…

  • 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 nation on African Americans’ struggle against poverty, ignorance, and prejudice, and contributions to American culture. The talks were delivered during a ten-day seminar sponsored by the U.C.-Berkeley Extension Service. This first lecture is a scholarly and humorous presentation of the…

  • The first emancipation (Part 1 of 2)

    Stanley Elkins, associate professor of history at Smith College and the author of “The First Emancipation,” is the speaker. The noted historian speaks about the 3.5 million slaves who lived on the border of the Confederate Union in 1861-1876. This is the first part of the third lecture in a series of ten lectures delivered…

  • An interview with Robert Williams (Part 1)

    Part one of Robert Williams being interviewed by Marc Schleifer in Cuba in March 1962. Williams describes life in Cuba and his migration there in order to escape racism in the southern United States. Reel 3 is currently unavailable. KPFA Folio note, July 4, 1962: The militant North Carolina Negro leader who fled the United…

  • An interview with Robert Williams (Part 2)

    Part two of Marc Schleifer’s interview with Robert Williams conducted in Cuba in March 1962, in which Williams describes life in Cuba and his migration there in order to escape racism in the southern United States. Reel 3 is currently unavailable. KPFA Folio note, July 4, 1962: The militant North Carolina Negro leader who fled…

  • Herbert Marcuse and Angela Davis at Berkeley

    Excerpt from a rally at University of California Berkeley featuring speeches by philosopher and political theorist Herbert Marcuse (1898 – 1979) and political activist and scholar Angela Davis (1944 – ). The rally was in support of Davis whose appointment to the faculty of U.C. Berkeley was challenged by the University of California Board of…

  • The Negro woman in American literature (Episode 2 of 12)

    This program from the “Negro Writer’s Vision of America” conference held April 23-25, 1965 at New York’s New School is a discussion of the Negro woman in America and in American literature. Participants are poet Sarah Wright, playwright Alice Childress, singer and actress Abbey Lincoln, novelist Paule Marshall and poet Sterling A. Brown. This is…

  • Preacher-man speaks (Episode 7 of 12)

    Preacher-Man, field secretary of the Young Patriots in Chicago, talks about the rights of Blacks at the United Front Against Fascism conference called by the Black Panther Party. Recorded in Oakland 1969-07-19. Contains obscenities.