African Americans–Civil rights–History

  • Religion vs. fascism seminar (Episode 12 of 12)

    Portions of the Religion versus Fascism seminar held on Saturday, July 20, 1969 at Bobby Hutton Park in Oakland. The moderator is Reverend A. Cecil Williams of Glide Memorial Methodist Church in San Francisco. The speakers are Father Earl Neil of St. Augustine’s Church in Oakland; Father Eugene Boyle of Sacred Heart in San Francisco;…

  • Gwendolyn Brooks and LeRoi Jones poetry reading

    This is a recording of the session during which Gwendolyn Brooks and LeRoi Jones (Amiri Baraka) read from their own poetry at the Negro Writers conference at Asilomar in August 1964. “The Negro writer in the United States” was a five-day seminar hosted by the University of California at Berkeley Extension Program, held at the…

  • The White man’s stake in Black liberation

    Carl Braden of the Southern Conference Educational Fund speaking in support of racial equality and laborers’ rights on December 7, 1968 under the sponsorship of SCEF and Freedom News, an independent monthly of Contra Costa county. Mr. Braden is editor of the Southern Patriot, a radical Southern newspaper in circulation since 1942.

  • Conference on racism in the law ; no.2: Recruiting Blacks into the bar; and Racism in the courtroom

    On May 4, 1968, nine Bay Area legal organizations sponsored a conference on “Racism in the law” held at the Sheraton-Palace Hotel in San Francisco. This is the second of five recordings from that conference. The first part features Jerome Carlin, director of the San Francisco Neighborhood Legal Assistance Foundation, and Preble Stoltz discussing “Recruitment…

  • Cops and robbers I: Police in the ghetto

    Four youths from Hunters Point discuss police problems and suggest changes. Herb Kutchins of the San Francisco Bail Project is the moderator.

  • Senator Robert Kennedy in Berkeley

    Senator Robert Kennedy in Berkeley, delivering a political speech at the Greek Theater on the University of California Berkeley campus. Recorded October 23, 1966.

  • Fasting Dick Gregory entertains (Part 2 of 2)

    This is a recording of the speech given by the Black comedian-turned-activist Dick Gregory on the 15th day of his 40-day protest fast. The speech was delivered to over 3,000 students at the University of Texas at Austin on December 12, 1968. In the speech, Gregory touches on a number of subjects, including the Vietnam…

  • One night in Newark

    Report and actuality of a night of race rioting in Newark, New Jersey in July 1967. Produced by Mike Hodel from tapes recorded in Newark by Robert Ortiz and Ronnie Watkins.

  • Dr. Herbert Aptheker discusses DuBois

    Dr. Herbert Aptheker, Marxist writer and historian, in a speech on Dr. W. E. B. DuBois, delivered February 18, 1968 at the 30th anniversary meeting of the Communist Party newspaper People’s World in San Francisco.

  • Emotional roots of racism

    Dr. Price M. Cobbs, black psychiatrist and co-author with Dr. William Grier of the best-seller, “Black Rage,” speaking at Sacramento State College October 2, 1968 during their symposium on “Racism in America.” Introduced by Jack Livingston.